147: Done with Nature, Don't Start Mail Carrier Beef, and Mother Teresa of Rodents

On this week’s show:

• Happy day national “45 Day”
• Mouse update?
• New sex-ed language for Essex-Westford schools
• A hotel coming to BTV?
• Direct flights to….Minneapolis
• VT democrats file complaint against True North Radio
• Protesters in Burlington against Tigray genocide
• Whatchu know ‘bout Tigray, Ethiopia?
• Did a state software program expose your personal information?
• 200K to UVM students who have a good idea
• Update: Massachusetts cyclist died in gravel race
• The Battenkill is back, baby!
• Senate won’t change color of plow lights

(47:35) Break music: Mad - “Morning Eyes”
https://madtheband.bandcamp.com/track/morning-eyes 

• Burlington VFW closes
• Road flaggers get automated in Barre
• A mail-carrying dynasty
• Adam has had it with the Bernie mittens lady
• Can’t fire this alleged prick state attorney
• Bow-using musicians caught up in international trade disputes
• Brattleboro bails out NH EMS
• NEK deodorant maker wins awards
• Update: Governor signs aid-in-dying law 

(1:36:45) Break music:  Secret LilyBird - “Twenty”
https://secretlilybird.bandcamp.com/track/twenty

• Scumbag Map
• Danby double-murder defendant finally gets some sunshine
• Man shot in downtown Burlington
• Unusually pure fetanyl in Rutland
• Sex assault at Norwich University
• Man uses airtags to stalk
• Brandon tobacco thieves
• Man pleads guilty to boosting 5 Teslas
• Best Buy biter
• Glo’s Buddy JP at UVM
• Keep your hands off VT wildlife

Thanks for listening!

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Outro Music by B-Complex

Chapters

• 9:56 New sex-ed language for Essex-Westford schools
• 11:50 A hotel coming to BTV?
• 16:50 Direct flights to….Minneapolis
• 21:40 VT democrats file complaint against True North Radio
• 24:44 Protesters in Burlington against Tigray genocide
• 26:15 Condensed African History by Adam
• 27:00 ...too many countries
• 29:36 Did a state software program expose your personal information?
• 33:44 200K to UVM students who have a good idea
• 37:26 Update: Massachusetts cyclist died in gravel race
• 40:00 The Brattenkill is back, baby!
• 42:20 done with nature
• 43:01 Senate won’t change color of plow lights

Transcript

0:09

Welcome to Vermont Ketchup with Matt. I'm Matt. Hello. Hello. And I'm Adam. We are weekly rundown of everything going down in the Green Mountain State. Happy 45 day, y'all. What's 45 day? The records. The LP, whatever, what were they called? The records. The old. 45s. RPMs. Yeah. The little ones, the seven inch ones. Oh, those were the. Not the big ones. Yeah. Those were 33s. Those were the three, but there was even another one, I think, of the big ones. It was 78s. 78s. It was really thick. Yeah. They were like, you know, my father had a bunch of those from Stan Kenton and jazz guys, you know, big bands and stuff. But yeah, they were heavy. Put on the Stan Kenton said no one ever. Not in the last 50 years, anyway. So, dumb question. What's the difference between a 45 and a 33? Just, I guess this is the way they, I really don't know. I don't know. The way it's made, you can, it has to be played at a certain, I don't really know. 33s have more songs. Correct. They're albums. Right. They're bigger, but the number's smaller. They get played slower? Yes. Okay. We're learning a lot today. And remember when we had record players where you could stack them? Yeah. And they would automatically drop on its own? It's like the old jukebox, right? Yeah. Yeah. That was murder, though, on the actual vinyl. Yeah, it seems like a bad system for keeping your vinyl clean. Yeah. You didn't really want to do it. I was just happy that it was, when I saw this 45 day, I was happy it wasn't about Trump. Why Trump? He was the 45th president. Okay. What was I gonna say? So, I saw that, I think this year is the first year that vinyl sales have outpaced CDs. Wow. I was still selling CDs. That is even more surprising, right? Actually, my car still has a CD player, but it's probably one of the last on the road. Your car has a CD player? Yeah, it's a 2014. Yeah. I hate to give it up, to be honest, because the only music I have is just this little tiny stack, but they're CDs. You just made me wonder if mine has a CD player. I've never even thought about it. You never even looked? Well, why would I? It's like, I don't even know if mine has a cigarette lighter. Why would I look? Yeah, but, I mean, all that time. It must not, it must not. Yeah, I think it would have known. What year was yours? 2014. Was it? It may, it may. Ah, you can be listening to CDs. I know. My Stan Kenton albums. Because I don't mind, if it was one year later, I would have had the Bluetooth. I was like, God damn it. Yeah, I have that, but it doesn't always work. Well, there's that. Anyway. Anyway, back to the story. Vinyl Day, 45 day. Enjoy, bust out your 45s. Yeah. These are my ski shoots, right? No. Oh, the classic. No, I mean the ones that are so badly scratched up. There's no way anybody, of course, a jacket cover was always one of the best parts, right? That was a collector's thing. Yeah, they were art. Yeah. There was another thing that was like a 60, like over 60% of people who buy vinyl don't have a record player. What? Well, I think that's like that art. They use it as like a display, like our, Yeah, our friend. Like our old friend, yeah. He had the vinyl displayed in his place. So, yeah. Not a bad thing. No. All right, moving on. To our Bruny listeners, I say, Ramamutsu. Glow, do you have an update on this mouse situation? Well. Can you set the stage a little bit? Okay. You want me to tell the story? You wanna? This is good because this aligns with our last story of the day. Yeah. It does. Well, by the way. Go ahead, tell us. It's gonna come full circle. You don't even know it yet. Well, it was what, two weeks ago or more now that I was walking a dog and a dog found this little itty bitty tiny mouse on the sidewalk and it was squirming. It seemed like it just got dropped. So, I picked it up, didn't know what to do with this thing and it ended up being in our kitchen. Well, you drove around with it in your hand. I know. For a long time. For quite a few trips, too. I went to all the pet stores and then I went to the health food store to get goat's milk and then. It was in shock. Yeah. I think it was in shock. Until we got here. Why didn't it get in shock somewhere else? As soon as it gets in here, it escapes. You should've seen him run around looking for the little thing. It was like a, it just popped right out. Yeah. Now it's in our kitchen. What do we think? He's been, yeah, I think so. And boy, has he increased his appetite. He's eating up a storm. Okay, so last I left, you had put like a three course meal in a trap. Yeah, and it actually got caught. Okay. I couldn't do it. Do what? It was nighttime, it was raining, it was pouring. I just didn't have a heart. So you released it back into the kitchen? And now I'm paying for it because. Eating my ham. Yeah. Oh yeah. My cheese, my ham. Yeah, we've stepped up from baby food. Oh, now you're serving it lunch now. Right. Okay. So yeah, we sort of figure we have to catch it before we have a dog coming over to stay for the weekend. And this dog is probably the type who would definitely find it and kill it. Now dogs, they just like to play, right? No, no, no. And they can accidentally, oh, no, no, no, no. Terriers especially. Maybe that's just what my parents told me about my dog that killed my hamsters. Yeah. Okay. It was his play. Yeah. I was a kid. Now we know a dog, right? Man, she is so good. She just like. Yeah. Well, you know, she's like 14 now, so. She's still got an inner. Can she get this mouse? She would just go to anything, a blade of grass, pluck out a mouse, and poor thing would be sticking out of her mouth and one gulp, it'll be gone. It was amazing how she would do that. We just still don't know what we're gonna do with it once you catch it. Well, I decided maybe put it in the garbage shed and then it could find its way out, but at least what? I feel like you're just putting it in like a, you're like a psycho killer in some horror movie. You're like, I'm just gonna put it in like a series of like predicaments and see if it can work its way out. Then I'll put it in a new one. First, you've trapped it. Now you're taking it out to the shed. I don't think, I started thinking about that. I don't think putting it in the shed is probably, especially if it mates. Well, who is it? It's a field mouse. I haven't seen a field mouse. Well, wait a minute. We don't always. Yeah, they're chipmunks. We never have field mice. Unless it mates with a chipmunk. Yeah, whoa. That's a new monster. Now we're getting some interspecies romance. So it's just a baby. Oh yeah, it is so cute. I mean, last time I saw it, I have no idea how big it is. I'm afraid he may have outgrown the trap. I've seen it running around a couple of times, especially in the early in the morning. Yeah, he ran across my arm one morning when I was sleeping on the floor. Because of my back, I didn't sleep on the floor. And all of a sudden, whoop. I'm like, no, I'm not doing this anymore. It's just too, I mean, it's not gonna do anything, but it's just gross. Well, I know like camping and things like that, where there's mice, you make sure you wash your hands really well. You don't want food smells on your hands. Or anywhere, though, because they do. We're washing our hands before we touch the mice? No, no, I mean like when you go to sleep at a camp or something like that. Or in my living room. Did you rub ham all over your hands before you went to sleep? Yeah, ham all over, that was the problem. But I remember staying in a cabin, and there was lots of mice, and it kind of scared the heck out of me by saying they chew on you at night. That didn't happen. What? Mice don't chew on you at night. Like, if you're dead for a couple days. Oh yeah, rats will. Rats will not chew on a sleeping person. You don't think so? I don't know. I'm losing confidence now in that statement. I don't think so. We're gonna have to let that happen. They're pretty nasty little bastards. Really? Yeah, you know. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Maybe I've just had that dream, that nightmare. Rats are coming. Rats coming and sitting on my chest while I'm sleeping. I don't think I've ever really seen a proper rat. No, that's not true, no, I have. Oh, you must have. Yeah, not in America. In Korea? Have you been to Southeast Asia and seen rats? All those, yeah. Yeah, just blended in with all the other rats. Not just Korea, like all of Southeast Asia, all of Eastern Asia. Don't they have cats? Yeah, sometimes the rats get too big for the cats. Sometimes there's more rats than cats. Well, get more cats. Hey, look, it's probably a good idea. Problem solver. Just make a couple litters. Speaking of making litters, the school board over there in Essex Westford, was it school district? Yep. They are rephrasing the way that they are talking about sex ed. Chloe, you'll appreciate this. Instead of using words like man, woman, man, male, female, they're using phrases like person who produces sperm, or person who produces eggs. Is it because of the transgender thing, I wonder? Could that be the reason? I would think that had a lot to do with it. Oh, I see, okay, hey, I'm ahead of things. Yeah, who are you? How progressive you are. The district insists the policy creates a safe and inclusive environment for LGBTQ plus students. Yeah, okay, I'm fine with that. I don't care. I hate to be the teacher, so. I mean, now you gotta say a person who produces eggs rather than female. You know, that's a lot. It is a lot. I think they can do it, though. We're not asking them to do it in their second language. This won't be happening in Florida. No, I don't think so. No, I mean, could we make it even shorter? Just like sperm carrier, egg carrier? Yeah. That's fine, that makes sense. Some, most people supported it. There was a couple people who didn't like it, but I think for the most part, it went over well. I'm surprised. Like, when I started reading the story, I was like, oh, God, and then I get to get to the middle, it was like, oh, overwhelming support by all people who attended. I mean, this has gotta be like leading Fox News all this week, I'm sure. Oh, God. So we got that going for us. What else is going on? Looks like a new hotel might be coming to BTV. Yeah, babe, been trying to do that for years. We're gonna build it on the roof at one point, I think. But that got nixed. Hey, do you know that that's a great place to go up? You can go all the way up to the top of the roof, and there's like a little park up there with benches and everything that you can look out, and of course it's- What if it's still there? Yeah, I want to do that. It's a little place you can sit, so it's kind of like they have plants and stuff up there. Yeah, it's really nice, or was. When would I do that? When, or why? Well, both. Maybe the why is included in the when, I'm just curious. I guess, you know, if you're not curious to see what it looks like and to get a view of this, well, then forget about it. Like, am I traveling, and I'm like, ooh, got a long way over, I hope I can get on the roof of this thing. Like that kind of thing? No. Like, can I get in there from inside the- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, just take the elevator. It goes right up. From the garage. No, no, no, no, let's say I've gone through security. No, you can't, maybe. Oh, okay. No, this is in the garage. No, this is in the parking garage. So, no, you're not even in the airport yet. You're still at the parking garage. If you go all the way up to the very top of the new part, of course, that's where it's like benches and plants. You got someone up there selling creamies or something, or is it just, I'm on my own for food? That's right. After you walk up all those flights of stairs, now you take the elevator. Pretty good view, though. It is. I think it's more for the locals. Because remember, they used to have- Nobody else knows about it. Why would they? I don't even think the locals know about it. I didn't know about it either. It's one of those things I think they put some money into when they built the airport. It's not used very much. And now, with COVID, who knows? Yeah. I don't know why that would make a difference. I don't either. I have no idea. It's outside, it's fresh air. But a lot of things changed with COVID. I think you talked about this maybe several years ago. So now I'm remembering that you did tell me this. I thought it was more for employees. No, for anybody. Employees, passengers. We had a little hot dog feast up there one time for the employees. I didn't, but I was up there eating, having a hot dog. So they use it, or they did. So this is gonna be a 105 room hotel. This is gonna kill the hotels around Williston Road. Will it put those sleazy motels out of business, I hope? I don't think that's the- That's probably the one that's gonna stay in business. Yeah, because the sleaze. Yeah. The sleaze will always exist. Can you rent them by the hour? What, the sleazy hotels? I don't know, or motels. I have no idea. Asking for a friend. I'm sure he's called around. I mean, the hotels there on Williston Road, they rely on a lot of business from the airport. People taking an early morning flight, they stay overnight. Because they have shuttles. Sometimes. Sometimes. Actually, a couple of those places over there, you can leave your car while you're gone, as long as you stay one night. So you think this is mostly people coming from, I don't know, St. John's Park? Or, say, Quebec. Quebec, they're coming to Burlington, sleeping to get a flight out. And they spend the night at the hotel, at the airport, and they're right there. That's true. I do like the way it looks now, though. They tore down all those houses, and it's more like just a park with streets in between. So where's this gonna be? You said this is going on top of the... No, that's where they originally, I think, they were planning on it. I don't know where. I assume it was going to be where they've taken down all those homes. No? Maybe they just wanted those people out of there. No, that's the buffer. Yeah, it was kind of, yeah. You know, I don't know. Yeah, because I thought that was the buffer for the people who are still left. Yeah, they're not gonna put a hotel. I think it's gonna be right there on the same property, maybe, at the end of the... Yes, at the end of the street. That's right, yeah. I got it now. I think that's where it is. That would make more sense. I feel like airports have a lot of space that they're not using efficiently. Yeah, yeah. They should have a walkway, though, all the way from there to the airport. That would be too long of a distance. But, you know, if it's raining and everything, you wanna just be able to walk right to the airport, right? Maybe there'll be a tunnel. Hmm, I doubt it, but... I doubt it, too. All right, speaking of the airport, looks like we're getting direct flights from Burlington to... Minneapolis? What? What? I think they ran this last year. Who's clamoring for this? Isn't that where Purple, what's his name? Prince. Prince, wow. Y'all should go on the fricking pyramid. You got that really quickly. Purple. Purple. Okay. Yeah, that's where he's from. Yeah, maybe that's it. I have, we have friends. You know he's passed, right? Yeah, and a friend of ours, actually, she's so in love with him, she got tattooed, first of all, and just last year, she flew out to Minneapolis. So, see? Maybe she... Is it his house or something? Oh yeah, what's it called? What is his estate called? I don't have any idea. What's it called? It's gonna drive me, okay, I gotta go. See, what drives me crazy about Prince is that he was alive for a long time, and I didn't know anyone who was this giant Prince fan. Then he dies, and suddenly, everyone in my life is like, oh man, biggest inspiration in my life, love, friend. I'm like, what? We've never had a conversation about this person. It somehow became cool for him to... I mean, I liked him, but... I don't idolize anyone. I can't. What is Princess of the House's name? Paisley Park. Paisley Park. Paisley Park. Paisley Park. Yeah. I like that. But I don't know what you're doing there. I mean, I think it's better or worse than Graceland. Do you think people still go to Graceland? Oh yeah. You think so? I think, you know, oh, okay, so the younger generation isn't into this Elvis Presley thing? Well, you say younger, you mean me? I'm in my 40s. Elvis means nothing to me. Oh, well then forget everybody under you then. Yeah, I'm saying, I don't think Elvis' music has had a legacy. No? I don't think so. Geez, but he is so, maybe it's because of his dancing and that's what got him. Those hips will last forever. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, like, what would be his big hit that like people who are like in their 20s would know?"'Nothing But a Hound Dog," that means nothing."'Nothing But a Hound Dog." I don't know, that's a song. That was Prince's?♪ There ain't nothing but a hound dog Yeah, that's a song. By Prince? No, Elvis. Oh, that's right, I lost track. Yeah. I'd love to hear Prince's cover of"'Nothing But a Hound Dog." It'd probably be pretty funky. Yeah, I mean, I like Prince, but come on. Don't fly to Minneapolis to see him. Of all the places, there's no direct flight to Orlando, but there's a direct flight to Minneapolis. This drives me crazy. Maybe it caught on. Maybe now everybody wants to go to Prince's Paisley Park. Maybe, maybe that's it. Well, Minneapolis, the airport there is- Paisley Park, Disney World. Paisley Park, Disney World. Minneapolis is a huge connector place. Oh, it is? Yeah. Oh, okay. Delta is in Northwest, well, the old Northwest was there, and Delta bought them. So, I mean, probably a lot of people just end up there. Connected? Yeah, connected, I don't know. That could be it. Really, why would you- Go to Minneapolis, right? I don't know. I mean, Prince, right? Other than that, I don't know what they're known for. It's cold, it's supposed to be really nice. Yeah, I don't know. It's further up north than we are, no? They get it pretty bad. I think it's colder there than here. Yeah, it is colder in Minnesota. I think they're a little bit colder and a little bit nicer. Than Vermonters? Yeah, Midwesterners. Yeah. People say Minnesota nice, they don't say Vermont nice. That's true. Yeah, they're more polite. Yeah, yeah. They're not like- Vermonters. They're Lutherans. They won't even talk to you. I mean, they just pull your car out of a ditch, but that's it, and just drive off in their truck. But you're right. I mean, the airline industry drives me crazy. We used to have direct flights to Fort Lauderdale. We used to have direct flights to Orlando. No more. And Boston. I think there still is one in Boston. There is? Yeah. It's a little puddle jumper, I think. Very expensive. Was that like a 33-minute flight? Yeah. All right, speaking of people who might pull your car out and not talk to you, the Vermont Democrats are filing complaints against True North Radio. Have y'all ever heard of True North Radio? I've heard of it. Okay, True North Reports. Yeah, yeah. I have no idea what it is. It's a conservative, it's an offshoot of a conservative, what is it? A blog, it's an offshoot of a blog called True North Reports. It was a radio show first, then it became a blog, and it's all funded by one woman. This woman, Lenore Broughton. And she's like this crazy, she's not a billionaire, but she's like a hundred millionaire, and she just has this reclusive life. She lives over on Henry, you know where that is, Jaloe? Henry? Are we talking Vermont? I think we're talking Burlington. Henry Street. Oh, Henry Street? Yeah, yeah, I know where Henry Street is. It's by Loomis. Oh, okay. So I guess she lives over there, and she's just got a ton of money, and she funds these really, I guess these aren't even super far, right? I mean, they're not like crazy. Yeah, they're just like... Conservative. Yeah, things I would disagree with, but they're not like... Vermont conservatives. Right, they're not like people who eat babies, and stuff like that. Yeah. What do they talk about? What do they say? I don't listen. Oh, I see. I don't either. I mostly know it from the blog. Like when I'm kind of scrolling through the news and stuff, every now and then a True North Reports thing will pop up, and it's like the most conservative angle you could take of the story. Like the one we talked about, like the sex ed terms, it would be like, you know, we're talking about like only two people in the audience complain. Their headline would be like, people complain about da-da-da-da. You know, they just take like the... The worst, yeah. The most, the worst possible angle to make... That's it. The other side look bad, or whatever. That's all. So what they're complaining about is they've been running ads. And not identifying themselves as a lobbyist, which is they're supposed to do. Oops. Yep. So this True North Reports are lobbyists as well? Well, they're doing it. They're not really until they put ads on the air. You're only a lobbyist if you do lobbyist things. They're doing lobbyist things without registering as a lobbyist. They're using money in a way they're not supposed to be using it without letting people know I'm using money this way. I see, okay. Gotta follow the money glow. It's always follow the money. So I'll be here to see what happens with this, but I'm guessing not much. Yeah. It kind of seems like the old Democrats pissing in the wind on this one. Oh, did you see this glow? The big protest in Burlington against the Tigray genocide? I'm glad you didn't have me pronounce that. I don't know if I'm saying it right. Tigray, it sounds good. Tigray? What's a Tigray or whatever this is? From Ethiopia. Tigray is a region in northwestern Ethiopia. So what's that got to do with us then? Well, we have many of them living here. Not many, but have a few living here and they're protesting the genocide which is happening in Ethiopia right now. Millions or half a million or something. Yeah, I'm trying to see how many people showed up to this protest. I remember seeing it was more than I expected. Oh, dozens. Okay, that's more than I expected. So yeah, a big, well, I don't know, a dozen. That's more skinheads than we get when the skinheads do their thing. So good. I guess that's heartening. But yeah, there's a big genocide going on that I had never heard of. Me neither. And I think that was the point. So good on them. Now I know what Tigray is and I know that, how can somebody like this get no, it only recently got press. I only recently saw it on Twitter. I wonder what it is about these people that makes it easy for us to ignore them. Let's see, they might be, African? No, I don't think so. Yeah, I was thinking about this like, I'm gonna give you the quick timeline of my knowledge of African history. Ready? Pyramids were built. That's Egypt actually. Which is in Africa. Pyramids are built. Hannibal has his elephants and crosses over into Europe. A whole lot of nothing. Nelson Mandela, a couple years of nothing. What the fuck's going on in Rwanda? Now here we are. That's pretty much all I know about African history. Yeah, we don't know a lot about African history. Especially pre-whatever. Other than colonialism. That's where civilization started, but we don't know that. It started with the pyramids. I mean, all the stuff in South Africa, and the Congo, and stuff like that. There's a lot of rich history, and we just don't know it. It's not taught. No, it's also really complicated. First of all, it's tribes. For one thing. And Africa, if I could give you some notes. You got too many countries. And you keep changing their names. I'm sorry, I'm sure there's reasons for it, but you guys got too many countries. Just like I don't expect someone from the UK to know every state. You know the big ones, right? California, Texas. Yeah, I mean, I went through this, they're describing where it was. Or no, I looked at the Wikipedia thing, and what you posted next. I've heard a few of these places, but most of them, what? We're very ignorant. Yes, we are. And so that brings us to GLOW. What you know about Tigray, Ethiopia? Nothing, obviously. Population, what do you think? Oh boy. 30,000? Try again. Smaller? No, much bigger. No, okay. A million. 5.4 million. What? How big of an area is this? Not very. Oh my gosh. A lot of people crammed into a small place. How do they do it? Apparently this is known as the cradle of Ethiopian civilization. I don't know what the equivalent would be, like the New York City of Ethiopia. A lot of religions have been around here. There's Christianity, Muslims, and stuff like that. Apparently their neighbor is just, so I said 5.4 million minus 500,000 now, over the last couple years, that's how many people died. That's crazy. They haven't even heard of this. I don't even know if I'm saying the word right. What is it? Another place I can't pronounce. Eritrea? Oh yeah, I've heard of that. Eritrea. But that's new. That's not something I grew up with. Eritrea definitely did not exist when I was taking World Geography in 1993 or whatever the hell it was. I don't know. Still learning. Good on the protesters, raising some awareness. Got us talking about it a little bit, even though we showed ourselves to be completely ignorant. Moving on. Something a little more fun. I didn't read this, Matt. Okay. The question is, the first sentence of this story, or the headline reads, did a state software program expose your personal information? If it did, wouldn't we know? Not necessarily. Someone might be doing the old Superman, is it Superman 3 trick? Where they're taking a half a penny out of everyone's bank account every other day or something? I never heard that. I never saw that. Well, I'm sure they're not doing that. I mean, think about it. If someone did take your personal information, maybe, first of all, is this agency gonna tell us if they did? Probably not. Why would they? And then second of all, you might not know for a while, right? Maybe they're waiting to see if you do anything. And be like, oh, Chloe hasn't changed her bank password. Now I'm gonna take out 50 bucks today, see if she responds. Okay, nothing. Maybe next week I'll take out 100. How often do people check that stuff? Especially if you're the type of person who doesn't live check to check, you know? Yep. I used to, and then I stopped. But a friend of ours got robbed of like $32,000 over like four years because she never looked at her statements. And when finally she did, and realized she'd been, this one particular person, whatever, was stealing from her the whole time. Was it someone that she knew? No, no. Was there any recourse? I don't know. I don't know if that got settled or what. And she's a lawyer, so maybe she could have. She's a lawyer, not a banker. Well, this is the, Vermont uses cloud-based software Salesforce. And examples of that use, including filing pandemic unemployment benefits. Hmm, I wonder who did that? Me. Me too. I was also laid off during the pandemic. COVID-19 vaccine signups. I wonder who did that? Me. Post for Monsters. And I guess you could just log on, and certain people would be able to look at all the information for no apparent reason. It's not somebody like hacking in. It just happens that you go into the website, and all of a sudden you can start looking up people's information. Oh, cool. I wonder how long that was there before someone figured it out. Didn't we suss out that, what was it, the DMV is basically ran by one dude? Yeah, yeah. Or, no, it was the unemployment office. Anyway, like, Unemployment. Unemployment. There's one guy who understands the system and can fix it, and if Kyle goes on vacation, it's just like, well, we're screwed. It's like, it's bad. I remember the whole pandemic, unemployment. Yeah, they got hit hard, but it took them a long time to get their feet back on the ground, because they were just so messed up. Nobody knew what the hell they were doing. Well, you couldn't put in, they wouldn't accept your last name if it was only three letters. Right. It's like, okay, sorry, long names only. You get nothing. Cool. But yeah, I get over my, I think that we would be just absolutely shocked if we could walk in and see what they're working with as far as like, Software. Or even hardware, I bet. Yeah, hardware, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I appreciate there's more computing power on this table right now than there is in the old unemployment office. That's insane. It's unlikely personal data was compromised. But if anyone's concerned, we'll look into it. Why don't you look into it anyway? Maybe you don't just assume. Yeah, it's probably unlikely. All right, moving on. If you lost some money there, UVM is offering a new way for students to make a ton of money. This is huge. Okay, that's why I put it on here. Because at first I saw the number and I read it wrong. I dropped a zero. And that's still huge. That's still huge, but it's reasonable. This is almost like, what? So this, I guess this couple from California, Chip and Louise Myers, their parents went to UVM, and I guess they just made a ton of money working in tech. I guess the name we gave Chip. Yeah, their parents went to UVM in the 50s. Back when it was affordable. And so now they're offering $200,000 every year to students who come up with the best idea for a business. Really? Yeah, and they're offering $200,000 Really? Yeah, yeah. That's incredible. That is good. That's a startup. That's enough money to get going. I know. Yeah. You don't even have to have a good idea. It just has to be better than everyone else's shitty idea. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. It's like they're giving the money away every year. And that's crazy. And then they're also, and so the way it breaks down is they are giving, so they said the first place cash prize would be about $212,000. And they're giving $2,000 to all the semi-finalists to get ready to present their final version of their proposal. So it's no joke. No, it's a big deal. Because the story goes on about how there are other things like that in this area, but nowhere near that much. I mean, we used to offer at the Lake Champlain, when I worked there at the Chamber, we had launched VT, and I think you get 15 grand? Yeah, 15,000. And that was a big deal for them. I mean, they would have some pretty good ideas come in, just for 15. Do you remember any of the good ones? No, because I was never invited to go to anything. Just to put in some ideas, man. You could be a winner. But I mean, people used to talk about it all the time in the office. Hey, these guys came up with this idea. These women came up with it. You know, it's kind of cool. That was just for 15. I wonder if there's any stipulations that they have to stay in Vermont for any period of time. Or is it just, there you go. But they're UVM students, right? Yeah, but they're graduating and leaving. Yeah, I know that, but it's just, there's some connection. But yeah, it would be nice if they stayed and ran their business from here. Oh, that would be nice. That's huge. It is an incredible amount of money. It just, yeah, it's one of those things that just makes me sit back and go, oh yeah, there's a ton of money in this state. I just, I'm just never around it. No offense to President Kampany. We got the North Radio person. Yeah. Got a ton of money and wasted it on bullshit. Yep. And you got this, which is not bullshit. Yeah. It's completely different, but yeah, there is a ton of money. So I did have this dark thought. I was like, ah, we should just go and do this totally hard, crazy right, and just appeal to that old millionaire, and just try to make as much money as we can, as long as we get stomach spouting out all that garbage. No? No. All right. We're not selling out. Look at Matt with his self-respect. He's just sitting with a mortgage, ain't he, too? All right, moving on. Oh, this is a dark story. Yeah, first of all, my bad. I wrote something along the lines of, no one survives the Rasputitsa last week. Yeah, we talked about this last week, and somebody did get killed during the race. Really? Got hit by a truck. Oh my God. Yeah. How did that happen? Well, truck versus car. I'm sorry, truck versus bicycle. The initial investigation found that Richard Wanstall of Marblehead, Mass., that he had been traveling south on Brook Road, but entered the northbound side of the road. Wanstall then collided with a 2007 Dodge truck that was driving north on the road. So he just, do you think he just ran the sign? I think so. Or did he veer out, wade past his lane? Is that it? I don't know, yeah. But yeah, we were just talking about this last week. So he was doing the, it's a 100 kilometer category of the Rasputitsa gravel bike race. 100 kilometers on gravel. That's too bad. Yeah, that is awful. Do you think that this makes the race more appealing to people who wanna do it? Like, oh, did you hear? You could die doing it. Oh, sign me up. You think it's like that kind of attitude? I just think people know that that's possible. I mean, I'm sure it's not the first death in one of these races. I mean, you could hit something and fly off your bike and break your back or something, who knows? Well, yeah, last August a Kenyan cyclist died, but it wasn't this kind of dangerous, rocky gravel race. I think it was more of a rubber. Yeah, I wonder if they're gonna maybe put efforts to, I don't know, block off roads. You know, like. It might try to make it a little safer by doing that. Yeah, that's a shitty way to die. Or maybe it's not, maybe it's the best way to die, doing what you love, I have no idea. We're all gonna die. Yeah, Methuselah said, you can't live forever. Who did? Methuselah. Who's that? He's a 700-year-old guy. What? 900-year-old guy in the Bible. Don't you read your Bible? Oh, no, obviously. Me and Matt were doing Bible study earlier today, and we were just going back and forth about our thoughts on Methuselah. I can't even pronounce it. All right, this next story, Glo, I pulled this for you because I don't know what it is, maybe you do, the Bratton Kill? Bratton Kill? The Baton Kill, Baton Kill? No, I don't know what the Baton Kill is, but it's the Baton Kill Fly Fishing Festival. Is it a river? Oh, I see. Yeah, it's a river in Arlington. Named Baton Kill Fly? What? I don't know. I'm just. So, they said it's like the most famous river in Vermont, is the Baton Kill. I'd never heard of it. No, I might have heard of it, but I didn't know it was a river. Apparently, it's big for fly fishing. Is anyone a fly fisher here? No. I'm not even a fisher. Matt, you've never been fly fishing? No. I mean, either. I feel like it's one of those things, it's kind of like paddle boarding. I feel like, I wish I liked stuff like that, but I just don't. I know some people that do it and they love it, but it's getting them out in some weird place in the country, and it's very quiet, and they're just doing this thing back and forth with the rod. I don't know. I guess it's hard to do, so once you become good at it, it's pretty cool. What makes it hard? Is it like the technique? I think so. The wrist. It's on the wrist? Yeah, I would assume so. Just how you flick it. Yeah, you gotta get that little fly to land right on top of the water, then jerk him up, do it again. Then do what, Matt? Jerk him up. Jerk him up. Jerk him up that little fly. Oh, you fly fisherman. Yeah, I guess so. Whenever you see someone doing it, they're standing in the water. You're like, oh God, that looks cold. Cold, yeah. You gotta have all the special equipment. Yeah, not very fun. In this picture, there's like, I don't know, two dozen people on land, and one guy standing in the water. I guess he's maybe teaching them how to do it, but I don't know. Like I said, I wish I liked stuff like this. I just, there's no, I don't know. I feel like I'm missing something. Like I'm not connected enough to nature, because I don't care about things like this. I did it one time. I don't want to anymore. I'm done. Done with nature. Done. Gloria's done with nature. I've had it up to here with nature. Yeah, I've done all kinds of paddling, and skiing, and... And now? Nothing. Nothing. And I'm happy about it. Good. All right, last story before I break. It looks like the Senate is rejecting a proposal to change plow lights. Finally, something important. Right. Plow lights are amber now, right? I think this story said, yeah, amber. But they want to flash them amber and green, but Dick Mazza, who pretty much runs down there, runs everything in Montpelier, says, nah, we're not gonna do that. And the argument for it is that amber is so readily available and so heavily used, that people are almost blind to it. Right. Really? They don't see it anymore. But green, but like he says, I'm confused as hell here. Green means go. Thanks, Dick. Okay, put red then. So this idea's been put on the shelf. I like that, like if Dick Mazza sees a plow with green lights, he's just gonna instinctively hit the accelerator, just crash into it, and just get out and be like, green means go. All that important stuff down there in Montpelier, not getting done. Yeah, so I mean, I do kind of understand the argument that amber is like the color of every light, but then green also, like, because a lot of the plows are around Christmas time, maybe that's not good either. Like, what color, do we need something like a strobe? Now we're worried about the kids with seizures. I don't know what the answer is here is. Yeah, purple wouldn't work. Pink. Pink? Yeah. What's wrong with pink? Well, it does make me think of prostitution. Really? Yeah, the red light district. Well, that's red. I'm talking pink. Okay, touche. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, is this even a problem? Like, are plows being run into at some crazy number? No, that's just what I'm saying, is another important thing that's not being, it's just, why? Why is this even brought up? And I think Mazza's going, okay, it's not gonna happen. You know, there's no reason. Yeah, the Agency of Transportation wants this. Well, do they have a list of accidents that have happened and why? Not in the story, they don't. Oh, well. You would think if that was a reason, they would give that. Right, exactly. Like, let's say if it's even 50 a year. 50? 50? That's a lot. Only 50. 37 people died in 50 accidents with snow plows. No, there are accidents. Which is down from last year's number of 50. There are accidents with snow plows, but it generally doesn't have anything to do with the lights, I would think. Well, first of all, let's not skate past the sobriety of our snow plows. Right. Let's assume that only 50% of them are 50% intoxicated at any given point in time. You know why we have this opening over here in the bushes? I don't know, I don't know if it's Oxy or Jack, but I'm guessing it's one of the two. It's one of our snow plowers. Just plowed right into it. Just went right into this thing. Well, you know what? Snow plows are pretty large, so they're kinda hard to miss. I would think so, unless it's a complete whiteout. Well, yeah, then you know, I don't think it matters what kind of light it is, right? Yeah. So, Ohio has gone green since 2012, and in 2019, Maine started adding them to its plows. So, it might be a future thing. You know what, yeah, right. Those progressive states like Ohio and Maine. So, you know what Maine calls its snow plows? What? Snow fighters. Wow. Wow. Just saying. If you're a person who drives a snow plow and you're getting up and your wife or husband is, because, you know, I'm sure ladies do it, too. Is giving you a kiss on your way to work, you'd be like, yep, I'm a snow plow person, or I'm a snow fighter. Just saying. Sounds a lot better, doesn't it? Does it sound a lot better? Yeah. Mr. Plow. Mr. Plow. Simpsons. All right, y'all ready for a break? Yep. All right, this song is from a band called Mad, and the song is Morning Eyes. I'm not sure if I.. I'm not sure if I I'm not sure if I can d I'm not sure if I can do it I'm not sure if I can do it I'm not sure if I can do it I'm not sure if I can do it We''re back and we're back with a heavy heart as we doff our cap and threw out some beer for the Burlington VFW. Closing. Really? Well, they sold it. The building or something was sold to a developer. Oh, what are we gonna have in there? What's gonna be in there? That's the one on South Winooski. Yeah. Oy. It's gonna be an apartment, 38 income-restricted apartments. Okay, well, that is what we need. Income-restricted which way? I don't know. Okay, well. But they will own a 2,500-square-foot suite on the ground floor of the new building in 2025. So they're getting a whole new place. Okay. It's gonna be the drunkest suite in that building. It will, yeah. Well, right now, don't they have some outside seating? You always see people smoking out there and stuff, yeah. Those people will be gone by the time this thing gets built. Probably. Well, I mean, these things are dying out, these organized alcoholism clubs. Yeah. You don't see them. I think we talked about that, you know, the little Bastards Club and things like that and the VFW. Because now the veterans from wars, they just joined paramilitaries. Or the police, so they don't really need- Or the proud boys. Yeah, so they get their community in other ways, right? Right. But Glo, this was built in 1980 by the Parmler real estate family. I know. Okay, sorry. We know the story. That mansion that faces the water up there on College? College. And it's beautiful and it's got this big green lawn. Looks like something from Georgia from the 1800s. Georgia. Guess what that was at one time? That was the VFW. So the Parm- Back when we respected our veterans. Yeah. Well, it was falling apart. And so Parmolo offered, I should say, Antonio Parmolo offered them, he would build their new building as long as they let him buy the old one or something like that. Or I think he paid for the whole building. So he saw some potential. Well, he wanted that building for himself. Yeah, of course. That's where his company is. Yeah, but thank God. Yeah, it was in bad shape. It's beautiful. We've been there, we did a ghost hunt there. And it's gorgeous. Yeah. Well, last call. Yeah, last call for these old fellas. I did like, if you had, I'm looking at a seven day story. If you do have a second, go ahead and read it. There is some pretty good color about the characters in the bar. Yeah, it's an interesting story. Yeah, the writer did a good job. Shout out to Derek Brower. All right, what else is going on? Oh, Barry. They're given the go ahead to purchase a couple of automated flaggers. I wish they had a picture of what it is. Yeah. Well, okay, this is what I'm imagining. Okay. Like, what's the old thing you punch and it falls down and pops back up? You know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, the clown thing. It's like a, right? Definitely it's not punching the clown. It's something else. That's exactly what I thought. Was it a clown? Okay, okay. I'm gonna hit it and it comes right back up. Yeah. Let's imagine it's that. It's not inflatable. It's like plastic. And on one side is a flag that goes up this way. The other side is a flag that goes down that way. And that tells you to stop or go. Is that what you're thinking? Yeah. I'm glad that you said that. Yeah, that makes sense, but it just seems dangerous. What he said doesn't make sense, though. I don't get that. Explain. So, yeah, look, I'm just making this up. I have no idea. Okay. But something, there's some structure and a flag goes up that says, like, the green flag goes up, you know, the old Dick Mahaza thinking, right? Green flag goes up, that means go. That flag goes down, another flag goes up, that means stop. Do we got it? It sounds reasonable. This is like at the construction site or like when there's doing road work and someone's there with a sign, stop, slow, stop, slow, right? Yeah, that would be the most awful job in the world for me. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about the hierarchy of the construction site. Well, I'm sure they're at the very bottom. They're not even, they're just contracted. Yeah. So I'm saying, like, are they the lowest of the low? Could be. Or are they the king because their job's so easy? I don't think that's so easy. I do not do well just standing. Dude, I mean, they're turning this thing. That's not. Oh, they get a radio, okay, my turn. Do we give that guy a radio? They do have radios. Okay, well then, okay. See, it makes it even easier. Okay, so now they're being told what to do, right? Guys, I'm gonna go in. Damn it, I said stop. Okay, so that's where we put, like, every job has a, well, what's the right word I can use? The slowest person. Right. So the slowest person gets that job. I don't even think it's, I don't even think it's, like, most of them don't even work for the construction company. They work for some other company. There's like a temp agency for flag people? Come on. No, there is a, I've seen the company, and that's it, that's what they do. Hires all these people to do this. We'll train you, we'll train you. It takes weeks. Depending on who you are. Yeah, that's amazing. It's a separate company. I thought they were just like, I thought it was like, I thought every crew had a guy, they were like, put Billy on the flag. It's like Flynn Flaggers or something, I don't know, it's just, they got a name, and they, they have their own truck sometimes. The supervisors do, not the flagger. Okay, I was gonna say, the flagger rolls up in a truck and jumps out? Like, that's insane. Yeah, so apparently Barry could not afford to hire anyone. Or they had trouble- But they can't. They can't. They had trouble finding someone. They had trouble finding people, especially in the summertime, for some reason. Begs the question, what does a flag maker, flag waver, make an hour? Flag waver, sign turner, all the same thing, right? Yeah, I'm sure until recently, it was probably 10 bucks an hour or something. You know, just some- Now making 26.50 plus benefits? Hell, I just noticed that pizza drivers are making 22.50. Think about getting back in the game? I'm a pizza driver. Delivery guy. But plus tips. They could be making 30 bucks an hour. They could, yeah. Why not? But, you know, it's two o'clock in the morning. Yeah, but I mean, you're probably not worried about getting, well, we'll talk about it later. I was gonna say, you're not worried about getting shot in Burlington, but maybe you are this week. Yeah, this is just interesting. And I didn't know that there's a temp agency for flaggers. And I didn't realize that they were so expensive and hard to find. It's not necessarily a temp agency. It's an actual- It is? Not just a company? No one's doing the flag thing for a long time. That's a temp job. You're not like- Oh, I see what you mean. Those guys- I've been doing this for 36 years. Never had an accident. Sometimes, some guys go slow to stop. I go stop to slow. I flip it on them. Those dudes are straight out of rehab, straight out of prison, right? That's probably- That's a good job for someone who's trying to adjust to sunlight again. They've been in the hole. Yeah, right. They've been doing hard time. That's some cool hand Luke style. Good luck, Barry. Moving on. Speaking of, I don't know, speaking of jobs that we should respect, there is a mail carrier dynasty. In Cambridge. In Cambridge, Vermont. Family's been doing it for a while now, right? My father was a mail carrier. My father's father was a mail carrier. My father's great grandfather was a mail carrier. And we all had the same root. Yeah, right. Can you imagine that? I used to sit on my grandpappy's lap while they delivered the mail. That's insane. That is quite the thing. Did we go through Cambridge when we drove two or three weeks ago? Yes, yes. Not much there. But it's right before Jeffersonville. Oh, okay. For over a century, four generations of Wilcox men have stuffed the mailboxes of Cambridge. Wow. That is amazing. Yeah. I respect a good mail carrier. I respect a good mail carrier. I've yet to find one in this fair town. Not the one we have. I've yet to find one. We used to. We used to. We used to have a great mail carrier. Maybe it's my fault for not showing that person enough appreciation. Don't, he doesn't wanna talk to you anyways. No, no, I don't mean the person now. Person now can go piss up a rope. He's very unfriendly. No. It's like, hey dude, I didn't make you a mail carrier. What's your beef? I did see him stop and talk to someone on the street that they were talking. Were they talking or yelling? No, they were talking. But it's down there in the Crescent Street area, which is nice. I think the Richards, oh, the Richards? Oh, so you think he thinks of us as the slum? I would think so. Well, I'll show him slum. I had a little beef with him. Yeah, we'll have it. Gloria was expecting a package. Okay. It was that. It was expecting, yeah. You can't boss after that word. It was expecting a package. Hurry up. Not what you think. No, not that package either. And so she was, and it was right when we had our locks put on our front door and he couldn't get in. Because nobody thought of it. Nobody gave him the number. So I went looking for him. He actually chased down. I found him, you know, between Glen Road and or between Fairmont and South Street. He was on that little, and I waited for him. I had to wait for him. I'm sitting in my car. Oh, okay, so you're sitting in your car. He's over there just doing his route. And you know where he's coming. I can see him. I can see him in my rear view mirror walking around the neighborhood. Okay, all right. So I go up to him and I explain to him what happened, that she needs this package. And if he still had it on the van, could I get it? He goes, oh no, I took that back a while ago to the post office on Pine Street. Wait, what? He took it. Everything that wasn't delivered, he took back to the- But I thought you saw him leave. Well, I mean, it was two hours after he worked on this. So he went back and picked up another load, brought back our stuff. He says, but if you go down to the post office, you know, they should be open. Okay, here's a question. I'm sorry, I'll leave it for you, it's just all right, but I have a beef too. But I went down to the post office, they were already closed. So he didn't know what time they open and close. He gave us the wrong hours. Yeah. Whenever we go to the Shelburne Road one, they always say, oh, it's probably at Pine Street. It never is. Never. It's always at Shelburne. We always have to say, can you please check again? And they go, okay. And they're, oh, here it is. Well, it was there. Yeah. And a really nice person the next day, when Gloria and I went, he was really, really friendly. Yeah, very helpful. Did you mention our guy? I did not. I don't wanna. Yeah. I'm sure everyone knows. I don't wanna start a beef with our male man. That's true. Yeah. You know, I get so few male, I get so little male anyway. I don't wanna. But he's not very friendly compared to the last guy. Oh, the last guy was, I loved the guy. Yeah. Now, if he had it in his blood to be a male carrier, he was several generations in. If he had a male carrier ethos that was been passed down from generation to generation, maybe he'd do the job with a little bit more dignity and respect. Yeah, right. Like the Wilcoxes. Well, good for them. Look at these gentlemen. I'm looking at a picture of them looking at an old book. Yeah. You think any, I think there are any Wilcox bastards on these routes? Yeah. The mailman. I'm just saying. Or the milkman. The mailman. Why is it the milkman? The milkman goes to the door. The mailman, well, out there in Cambridge, I think they just drive around. Sometimes you gotta walk. They drop off the mail. Sometimes you gotta walk up and put it in the slot. Yeah, true. Put it in the slot. Sometimes. Okay. Can you imagine driving, delivering the mail out there in the winter? Yeah. It's a lot of work. Yeah. Delivering the mail out there in the wintertime? No. In Cambridge? Like, what is your, your car has to be a plow. You know what I mean? It does. Exactly. I can't imagine that, because that, Cambridge gets a lot of snow. And you better have chains, too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, these Wilcox boys, they figure it out. They've done a good job. Remember when the mail was like, remember when the mail used to be fast? Yeah. And then like three years ago, it just slowed down. We all just went, okay, that's how life is now. DeJoy or whatever his name is. Yeah. I used to be able to mail a letter to Florida in like three or four days. Now it takes like eight. It's like, it's terrible. Okay. I'm basically all his junk anyways. Yeah. That's true. I don't get, I mean, that, my, this is my mail routine. Open the mailbox, throw in the garbage. Open the mailbox, there's no, I'm really just emptying it, so to be nice to that guy, so he doesn't have to stuff it in there. Next story. I don't know how y'all feel about this person. I'm done. I'm over it. The mitten lady? Yeah, this is the Bernie mitten lady. Her name is Jen Ellis. If anyone doesn't know, Bernie wore some funky looking gloves to, what was it, Joe Biden's inauguration? What's that, two years ago? Sitting in a chair. Sitting in a chair. He did not look pleased to be there. It was a cold day, he had these weird mittens, and he became a meme for like two weeks. I mean, still kind of is. People still throw it up every now and then. And then the woman who made the mittens became famous for a couple of days. And now she wrote a book. All about the mittens? No, it's about her life of being sexually abused, and all this stuff that's like biography kind of thing. I'm sorry, did anybody ask for this? I don't need your story. I don't know. I liked it better when you were just the mitten lady. Yeah. I'm sorry, I feel kind of weird saying that, but yeah. I don't want to know every bad thing that's happened to every single person in the world, right? So just make your mittens. You're probably making a good coin off it, maybe you're not anymore, that's why you wrote this book. But it just seems like a 268 page book. Whoa. Like Churchill's book was out on. Yeah. And Churchill wasn't known for his brevity, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, man, I feel kind of bad because she was a victim of assault, but also, who cares, I guess? We don't care, it's just we don't want to hear it. Like if she was sitting here, I would listen and be like, oh, I'm really sorry about that. But like, you said it perfectly, who asked for this? I didn't. Who's like, man, those mittens are amazing. I wonder, I'd love to know the story behind the mind who created those mittens. What, how? How did they end up making mittens for Bernie Sanders? And that story's not very interesting. She like knew his daughter or something, it was like, here. His daughter-in-law, yeah. That's not interesting. That's like, that's page one. Yeah, 267 more to go. Anyway, I guess it's hard to crap on this woman because she's a victim. But we will anyway, get out of our face. Speaking of people we want to get out of our face, Franklin County is having a hell of a time getting rid of their prosecutor. Right. To go along with their sheriff. Yes. Who's been charged with assault. Yeah, so this guy, he is refusing to resign after internal investigation found that he harassed and discriminated against his employees. But that's all the information they give us, right? Did they get into this? Oh, he made derogatory comments to almost every protected class, including women, LGBTQ+, people of color, people with disabilities, and people of varying religions. He allegedly made comments about other people's body composition. What does that mean? You're fat? You're fat? Oh, I thought it was like, you're full of shit. I like that you're confident. You are 98% composed of bullshit. So yeah, man, he basically just, pretty much everyone, everything. He doesn't like anybody. No. And he's a Democrat too, isn't he? He can still be an asshole. Yeah, well, I bet it's usually the Republicans are like this. Yeah, but that's a new thing. And in Montpelier, some people are grumbling about maybe getting rid of this guy, impeaching him. But he didn't impeach that sheriff who got elected, and he's under arrest for assault. Yeah, they're not gonna impeach this guy because vacation's coming up. They got senioritis. It's like their final exams are over. They got one foot in the beach. Well, that's what, I mean, that's pretty much what everybody decided. No, but nothing's gonna happen. This is just a, this is a non-story story, I think. It's not gonna happen. Yeah, this guy's a dick. I mean, if I was in his courtroom, if I was up against him, I'd be like, and I lost my case, I'd be like, I have grounds for a mistrial. Well, that may happen. I mean, if I was a person of color, or gay, or of any various religion. Or fat. Or fat. Or beautiful, big bosoms, things like that. Well, that gets you things in this world. Being black and being fat doesn't. You think this guy's like, you think this guy's like, you know what one thing I don't like? Those big buxom blondes. No, but I mean, saying remarks about that. Right, right, right. About, I wish I could, you know, blah, blah. What's the blah, blah, glow? You fill the blanks. Don't make me say it. I'm not gonna say it. You already made me think it with your blah, blah, blah. Anybody hearing probably has done the same. Yeah. Yeah, and so yeah, he's just flat out refusing. This is amazing that you can just like, cross your arms and be like, no, no. I'm not gonna do that. That's it. The power of not having shame. Right. Boy, I would not know what that is. Well, that's why you're not the Franklin County District Prosecutor. That's probably one of two or three reasons. That's the main one. You're not shameless. Yeah, so we'll see what happens with this guy. I'm guessing he'll just live a happy life of ignorance, retire, and just be a rich asshole. It'd be interesting to see if he runs for re-election. Yeah, that's true. How long have they been running for? Because the guy, the sheriff won. He was charged with assault. But of course, won. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is Franklin County. Franklin County, Jake. All right, moving on. So apparently, there's a problem with a certain kind of Brazilian redwood. I'm gonna need your help in pronouncing this one, Glo. The Parnambuco? Let me see. Not yet. Fourth paragraph. Parnambuco. Parnambuco? Yeah, something like that. Parnambuco. You came close. This is Brazilian. Yeah. So, you know, their dialect, they add a little more spice to it. To keep Portuguese. Let's be honest, they bastardized the good Portuguese language. Exactly. They completely ruined it. Just the way we did with English. And the French Canadians did to the French. I would like to say that we put a little spice on it, as you say. Oh, exactly. And like Mexican with Spanish. Oh yeah. I've been told that Mexican Spanish sounds so much nicer than the Spanish Spanish. What? I figured it'd be the other way around. Because British English sounds nicer than, well. Oh, that's what I'm saying though. If you can understand it. Yeah, right? Yeah, it depends. There's a little reason, I guess. Wait, wait, so you said Mexican is more? Delightful to hear. But the original is Spanish. Spanish. Spanish, Spanish. But Mexican Spanish is more delightful? Well, you know, it has a little more, I don't know. It's just. Lilt? That's the word, lilt. I don't even know what that means. I don't even know what that means. I think that's a word though. That is a word, that's for sure. All right, so anyway, back to this travesty that's falling upon our bowed instrument players. So apparently there's a shortage of the Brazilian. Permnabuku? Yeah, redwood, which is used to craft bows, coveted bows. So apparently, Matt, you don't know this because you never, well, maybe you're a violin player. No? Okay, I don't know. No musical. I thought maybe like middle school you had to do it or something. Oh no, the only instrument I've ever played is a flutophone. A flutophone? That's what they used to call. The recorder? The recorder. Oh, okay. Yeah, and I was terrible at it. Well, just awful. Yeah, I mean, you're a kid and you probably got taught poorly. Well, I just don't have any rhythm. You do, on the dance floor. Yeah, but I mean, I was talking about it. He's very good. But talking about it, keeping up with the same beat and all this, I don't have any of that. Matt sings with his body. That's right. Anyway, so this, I guess this wood is used when you are progressing in your skill. This is kind of a sign of prestige and skill. It's almost like a black belt of violin playing. I was just gonna say that, yeah. Yeah, but apparently the Brazilians have put this tree on the endangered species list. Oh, shit. I'm surprised there's nothing, I mean that there's anything left. I know that Amazon is very, very big, but. That's the number one retailer in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, Glo, can you contain your point about Amazon the retail giant, as you were saying? They're gonna have to change the name of that forest. They probably will. Yeah, they should. It's gotta be copyrighted for music, yeah. Wait, which one are you talking about? But yeah, so this is a big problem for our violin players, our cellists, the ones who play that bigger one than a cellist, cello. So how many of these are out there? How come they just don't get passed down where let's say now they go on auction and they get sold for that, you know what I mean? Yeah, but it's gonna be expensive. Yeah, well. At least they can get them. If I was some kid from the streets just doing my violin thing, I can't afford that. That's not the black belt of violinists. You know what I mean? You never know. Well, sometimes it could start out that way. Apparently carbon fiber alternatives cannot match the quality of this wood. Yeah, so that makes sense. Apparently there's nothing that sounds quite like it. Is this gonna be one of those things where people 100 years from now will never know how good our violins sounded because they don't know what life was like with these bows? Yeah, they probably won't have much hearing left either. Well, they're not 100. What do you mean? They're not 100 years old. They're not like. 140. I don't mean they're zero now and then 100 years from now, I mean people who are in their 30s 100 years from now. I wonder what's. I wonder what is the second choice. Oh, it's like. I'll have one of those. I guess I'll use the Spanish shitwood. You know, it's like something that's obviously inferior. I don't know. I don't know. All right, moving on. So Windham County, that's Brattleboro, right? Yeah. So I don't know what the hell is going on with the Brattleboro EMS. Yeah, we've talked about this two or three times. Like they took it away, then they brought it back, then they fired someone, then they brought it back, but apparently they're gonna take over. Keene, New Hampshire. Yeah. The company is called Rescue Incorporated. Wow, that's a pretty good name. Yeah. Pretty good name. It's so crazy because I don't think of like, I know I'm naive and stupid, but I don't think of like ambulances as being like companies. Just like I didn't think of like the flag guy as being like a company. Well, this one, this is the RJ, family-owned RJ Deluzio Ambulance who got hit with a $648,000 federal tax bill, which they can't pay. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a big bill. Yeah. I wonder what happened there. They forgot to carry a one in that old spreadsheet? No. But yeah, so Rescue won't be purchasing the equipment or property, but instead will add the 30 New Hampshire employees to its current Vermont payroll of 80. So Rescue Incorporated is becoming this giant giant. 110 people now, right? Hey, if they're doing it well, let them do it, right? But like, I don't remember the story now about what, I thought they took it away from them and then they had to bring them back or something. Okay, so the move comes a year after Brattleboro government dropped its nearly 60-year contract with Rescue with little public notice or debate. Brattleboro leaders still haven't shared any of the reasons why they did that. Yeah, I don't- That's the thing about, I think, I've been thinking a little bit about this lately, that politicians, they don't have, nobody to answer to anymore, except for the voting booth, that's it. There are no rules. Some of these states or legislatures are passing these incredibly bad laws. Can't do anything. I mean, fascist laws. And it's like, why haven't these people said why? The voters have a right to know, right? You would think, but no, not in this day and age. Yeah, it is wild that being a public representative is the least accountable job you could have, right? Give up, Glo. I give up. Do we care about this? Heinsberg, Solar. No. Pass. Open the Northeast Kingdom. Who knew that award-winning deodorant would come out of the Northeast Kingdom? You never know what's gonna come out of the Northeast Kingdom. Hey, I can't believe it. Today, I actually saw a bumper sticker that said, the Museum of Everyday Life. I was like, damn, we should have bought one. I want it, I wanna go back. There was no one there. I know, that's why it was an honor system. Oh, was there stuff for sale? I didn't even see that. Yeah, there was like cards and things like that. Oh, yeah, you should have grabbed one. Yeah. Why didn't you? I just, maybe it wasn't there at the time. I don't remember really noticing. I don't remember seeing anything like that. I don't know where this person got it, but I was like, yes, I just love that place. Yeah. Well, next time you're up there, you should swing over to Peachum, Vermont. Up there, over there. Over there, near Barnett. Until there by Barnett. That's where what's-his-name lives, the actor. The ugly guy. The ugly guy. The ugly guy whose name we can never remember. Guzman. Oh, yeah. See? Yeah, he has an ugly sounding name, huh, Glo? What's the first name, though? Luis. Oh, Luis. Luis Guzman. So a main Vermont feature company just won an international award for their natural deodorant. Damn. That's pretty impressive. Yeah. Now, if they were UVM students, they could have gotten 200 Gs for this, right? Yeah. Yeah. It pays to go to college. We first met Wendy McKenzie of Everlasting Herb Farm back in 2011. She was showcasing her ChapStick. So she went from your lips to the pits. To the pits. Now she has a natural deodorant that works. Are y'all deodorant people? Yes, no? I have to. I have to. I have to. I have to. I have to. I have to. I have to. Yeah. You make it sound like the government is requiring it. There's, you get sentenced. The judge had a hearing. You have to wear deodorant. I wear the natural deodorant, supposedly. Anything with zinc in it makes me break out. They say like the aluminum in deodorant. Aluminum, yeah. Some people think that's what causes autism or something. I know, I know. I've been using it forever and I don't give a shit because that's the only thing that's gonna work. I quit using the aluminum stuff about 20 years ago. Yeah. Because it just makes my itch and break out. On me. Gets me to not stink up the room. Tom's, yeah. Now you're Tom's guy. Tom's guy. No, actually I'm using. Nature's Gate. No. The razor company that, oh, Dollar Shave Club? Dollar Shave Club, I use theirs. Okay, that's pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. Doesn't have aluminum in it. I've been an Old Spice guy since 14. All right. So, do you smell like Old Spice? Do you smell like Old Spice? Right now? I mean, like when you put it on, you can smell it? I mean, I don't like, I'm not like painting it on. I do a couple of swipey, swipes. But is it, you know, fragrant when you rub it on? Yeah, it's fragrant. I like Old Spice. Usually, because I know that smell well, because my father liked it. Well, I might be using like Pure Sport, or like Wolf Tooth, or whatever the hell they're called now. Like, I'm probably using something different than what your father used. Like, the straight up like old man, Old Spice that like my dad used, like just the deodorant, I use like the deodorant and the Purse Sprint. Just the deodorant, I put that on, it burns. Yeah. Like it's like, That's why I had to quit using stuff like that. Really? Yeah. So, what do you, do you use anti-Purse Sprint, or deodorant? It's like deodorant slash anti-Purse, I mean, it's white. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Like I said, I just do a couple of swipes, because my wife thinks I don't stink. And I'm like, well, I don't think I stink at like work, so I'm fine, you know? You ever work with someone who doesn't use it? Oh, yeah. Chris Von Stinky, we used to go. Okay. That's not a real name. It was a combination of BO and cigarettes. Oh, man. It was just awful. He worked in our office. Yeah. Yeah, he was awful. And I don't think he ever washed his clothes. Oh, man, he had the trifecta. I thought about that the other day. I thought I was doing laundry, and I was like, how many days could I go wearing the same thing without washing it, without people noticing? Because I'm just sick of doing laundry. I've been doing that a lot lately, wearing the same, because I just go out and walk dogs, so I wear the same pants. And then I come home, and I take them off, put my pajamas on, so I'm not wearing them all day. Pants are totally different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shirts are, yeah. Pants, you can wear the same pants like five times in a row without washing. I change the shirt every three days. Yeah, okay. Every three days? Well, again, I only wear it outside. No, listen, I'm not. And I put a different shirt on. I have a set of shirts. Oh, I see. He's got a system. I have a system, because one thing is, I flush this disease that I have, or we don't know what it is, but I get really hot. So then I start sweating, so I start stinking. Okay, I think that you're reacting so strongly, because you think that my tone is accusatory. My tone is jealousy. You should be. I am. I'm like, I wear a shirt, I take it off, I'm like, it doesn't really stink, but society tells me I have to wash it. I think you should not worry about it until your wife tells you you stink. Because she would. Yeah, she probably would. Eventually, yeah, eventually. I feel like the flies would be circling. You smell like a cadaver. But I used to change clothes every day, and I don't give a shit anymore. I'm not gonna lie. I used to change clothes every day, and I don't give a shit anymore. I'm almost 70, who cares? So getting back to this deodorant. Meadow Bee deodorant. So originally it was a cream deodorant, but I guess I didn't hold up in the summer. So this woman figured out a way to make a new solid form with nothing but tapioca starch, mango butter, and now we get the mystery, and a few other natural ingredients. Tell us. It's proprietary, it's proprietary. She's not gonna let you know what's going on in her deodorant. So where can we buy this? I don't think it says. Anywhere that good deodorants are sold. I'm not sure. I mean, Google Meadow Bee deodorant, and it should probably pop up. It has two varieties right now. The uncensored silver-tailed petal cutter. Okay, first of all, that sounds like a condom. Yeah. Yeah, she needs to work on the name. And then the sunflower sharp-tail. That's where the condom goes. This is what they should use for the Essex sex ed. Okay, so some of you are silver-tailed petal cutters, and the rest of you are sunflower sharp-tails. All right. So yeah, hope she likes this endorsement. Good for you. What's your name? Mackenzie. Mackenzie? Let's go by that. Mackenzie. I might try some. Wendy Mackenzie. Yeah. I like to support local products, and if it's good, if it doesn't make me break out in a rash. Hey, if it gets me off the aluminum stuff, I'm all for it. I really like it. I like it. If it's the aluminum stuff, I'm all for it. I'd love to. We used to use a rock. What was that thing you used to use? Oh yeah, it's like a crystal. A salt crystal or something. We talked about this, actually. I remember you two both getting like, you don't remember any of it, obviously. Why are you rubbing that rock underneath your arm? I'm doing a salty rock. Isn't it salty already? Of course, salt prevents anything from going bad. I mean, I think that works with like fish on like a pirate ship. What are we talking about? Oh, well. All right. Moving on. So it's official, Matt. Yep. Governor Scott signed the bill to expand the medical aid and dying loft to non-residents, which is good. So if you're living in Tennessee and you wanna kill yourself, don't blame you. Coming up to Vermont. We'll do it. You're more than welcome to come here and kill yourself. Well, I have a friend who's interested in this down in Florida, because of course they don't have any good laws down there. But anyways, I've been passing this information, but reading now the bill, I find out that you have to be, doctor has to declare that you have six or less months to live. You just can't have like ALS, and you're gonna suffer for three years. Oh, come on, doc. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And my friend is not, I don't know if they could declare, they say she might live five years, but it's just gonna be misery. But can I say like, hey doc, I'm not gonna live five years, I'm going to Vermont to kill myself. Well, they have to come here to get examined by a doctor. And this one here in the story from Middlebury, down at the hospital down there, she'll do it. Because a lot of doctors won't do it. But is she gonna be like, is she like the weed doctor, where you walk in and you're like, I'm having trouble sleeping, and they're like, cool, here's some weed. Is she gonna be like, if I were gonna be like, hey, let's kill ourselves, she goes, I think you have five months left. Oh, you qualify. I think the laws are probably a little more stricter. Yeah, it's, I mean, there's such a thing as quality of life. If you have no quality of life, like somebody with ALS, in the early stages, you know what's coming. No. You know, it's like my friend. She's got this form of MS that's not even MS, it's just got some weird name, and there's only like 10,000 people that have it. There's no cure, there's no nothing. It's just misery for the next maybe two or three, four, five years, who knows. You know, she might be stuck in bed for four years. And not to sound like crass, but like people around her also not having a fun time. Oh, no, but that's one of the worst parts, is anytime you have, somebody who's dying, or somebody who's really sick, it's the people around them that suffer. Not as much, but they suffer a lot because of different things. You know, her husband and her two kids, you know, her daughter had to move home to take care of her because her husband's an airline pilot, so he's not home. How old is he? My age. He's not retired? Oh, he loves it, he's not even retired. He just started, actually. He just started a few years ago. No, he was running. No, really. He was the oldest junior pilot ever. He was a pilot years ago, and then ended up getting a job in Florida. He was a pilot, and then he got a job in a big, big, big, big, architectural firm that he was the manager of, so he was doing really well. I was gonna say, this dude's got money. And then 2009 hit. Okay. Everything hit the shitter, so he went back to becoming a pilot, and he was flying to a local region, and now he's a private, you know, he works for a private company where he flies all over the country. He's doing well. Yeah. Okay. Whatever, I'm not judging these strangers' lives. I've never met. It just seems odd to me. And she's got the greatest dog. Oh, well, does that make life better? No, come on. It was a sweetheart. Mention the dog. Oh my goodness, I can't remember the name. What kind of dog is it? Oh, very ugly. And yet beautiful. Oh, he's a pity. Yeah. Some sort of pit bull. Yeah, but it was like, a little off, you know, and all that. Anyway, but it's the greatest dog. That's the daughter's dog. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, what's his name? Anyway, but. And she's. I have a brownie just sticking out of my mouth. Don't ask me any names. All right. Remember that time in 2009? No, no, I don't remember anything. She said how much he paid for that dog.$12.$12. And she always says. Is that a fucking drug deal?$12. Something like that, very, very cheap. I think it was at the pound, probably the last moment before it goes under. Anyway, yeah, she. Yeah, she saved his dog. And it's been like, a wonderful dog. Yeah, she's a very good companion to my friend. Yeah, well, her two laps. Her two laps are useless. Yeah. Are y'all ready for a break? Yep. All right, the music is from Secret Lilybird and the song is 20.♪ Time is moving too fast♪ I wish I could catch a light♪ And fly, fly♪ And keep it in place♪ You know I'm doing it for a while Alright, we're back. It's time for our weekly rundown of the worst people in Vermont. The ne'er-do-wells. The rapscilians. I can never remember. I'm never prepared. The miscreants. The hoodlums. The punks. Oh, hooligans. Hooligans. Matt, it's time for... Scumbag Map. Alright, so our first scumbag is an old scumbag. So he's the defendant in the 1989 double murder case. And the judge has said, I guess you can just go home for a while. Yeah, because the case looks a little weak, I think is why they... From what I read in the story, this guy was accused... It was an old cold case. That he was a suspect in his in-law's murder. Because we talked about this before. And they finally arrested him because they were able to do DNA on a spot of blood found in his car at the time. Which they couldn't do in 1989. So they arrested him, but the case is looking a little weak. The judge is going, well, you know, that's not really enough to hold somebody without a bail. So the judge said the state didn't present any oral or written testimony about how the blood spot was collected from his car. Oh yeah, that's what it is. But, like what... I don't know, like, are there multiple ways it could be collected? I guess. But there's supposed to be a chain of command thing. A chain of custody. That they didn't do, I guess. So it's... You know, reading this, I don't know. He doesn't look like he has a very strong case. Or something that could get thrown out for mistrial or could get, you know, appealed if he does get convicted. But yeah, he supposedly stabbed his in-laws. I have good in-laws, so you don't want to stab them. No, my in-laws are fantastic people. But I have met in-laws that are stab-worthy. Alright, speaking of stab-worthy, so downtown Burlington, apparently it's a war zone. This is coming to you from True North Reports. So I guess there was a shooting downtown? As I understand it, this guy got shot and kind of like wandered outside? Yeah, he was in his apartment upstairs from Manhattan Pizza. Right on the corner of, what is it, Church and... Main. Main. Oh yeah, definitely. I see that. So he wandered out. People thought he was shot, you know, in the street, but he wasn't. And they know who did it now. There was an update today, I think. There's a couple guys they're looking for, right? Yeah, they're looking for a couple guys, because the guy's cooperating with them. He knows who shot him, so... I don't know who shot me. Yeah, I know the guys. So what do we think? Drug-related? They're all drug-related. What was the name of the guy who got shot? Do we have his name? Maybe not. No, I don't think so. Yeah, it's like... Because we learned a few months ago that a lot of this crime in Burlington is like... It's not going to affect civilians, because it's like this long-standing beef between refugee communities. It's like, you're not involved, we're not going to shoot you. Maybe you'll catch a stray every now and then, but you might get that from the police department during their training. It works either way. Well, it was funny, because this... Not funny, but this happened at the same time they were doing the protest across the street with the Tigres. The Tigres! They were protesting at the same time. And then they got taken out. So, yeah, this is something, some beef that happened in an apartment. How do you get unusually pure fentanyl if you're just three people in an apartment? I want the Coen Brothers movie that is the week leading up to this bust of these dudes' lives. What were they doing? Who were they mixed up with? How did they get into this caper? How did they get this stuff? Because usually by the time it gets to those low-life people, it's been stepped on many times. And you don't want to have fentanyl around that's pure. You think they found it? That would be the Coen Brothers movie. That's what I'm saying. If I stumbled upon a bunch of fentanyl, I'd be like, no thank you. Not touching that. If I found a big bale of weed, I'd say, I'll throw it in my truck. I don't know if I'd do that either. That means someone is missing that weed. It's like, I'm good. You find it washed up on a beach, you gotta take it. There's nobody looking for that one. I don't know. You might be right on that. I would be hesitant. Charles Keefe, Dustin Thompson, and I love this name, Bobby Joe Keefe. Bobby Joe. There's always a Bobby Joe. There's always a Dustin. These people had some badass stuff. They probably didn't even know it. Probably not. Moving over to Norwich University. A cadet over there pled not guilty to sexual assault. This is the most detailed account of a sexual assault that I've ever read in a story. Not detailed graphically, but detailed like the TikTok. It's like the day by day of this will happen, this will happen, this will happen. I can't log in. I will recount it to you. This victim, she was a cadet over there at Norwich. She said she's drinking, went back to her room with this guy. She laid down on his bed and he was trying to kiss her. She's like, no, no, no. He's like, can I take your clothes off? She's like, no. He's asking, right? He's trying to get consent. Then I guess he sexually assaulted her anyway. He woke up later. I guess she told some of her friends about it. She confronted the dude and was like, let me get this right. She yelled at the guy. He's like, I don't remember what happened between the two of us. She's like, let me give you the details. She started going through the night. He stopped her saying, stop, stop, stop, stop. I remember. He's embarrassed. He knows he's guilty. There's other people around. This is just so. Then other students at school knew about it. They thought this guy was lying. So finally they turned him in. Apparently a witness said they saw another confrontation between the two where the victim said, you raped me, and he responded, I'm sorry. Not good enough, buddy. I don't think that works. You're not going to be in the military anytime soon. Maybe. Fit in perfect. I guess this guy told someone else, I can't believe you're not angry with me because I raped and then the victim's name. Oh, my God. Seems like a pretty cut and dry case. I think he fits the bill on the scumbag map. Yeah, just not a lot of self-awareness for him. No, he has a lot of self-awareness. Just after the fact. He just got caught up and thought he had that power. Speaking of power, here's an interesting story coming out of Warren. So a Burlington man faces stalking charges after police say he tracked a Mad River Valley woman with an air tag. What's an air tag? That was my question. Yeah, I never heard of it. It's made by Apple. I know that now. Yeah, so I guess it's like a tracker. I was just impressed that a 62-year-old knows tech better than I do. So he placed it on this woman's car. She found it behind her license plate. Police say that he was lawfully seeking to take possession of the woman's car as part of a debt payment. He did not have a search warrant or authorization to track her or the car. Yeah, so she owed him money. He put this thing on to make sure the car didn't disappear. And then he's not supposed to do that because he's a scumbag. I like that this isn't his first run-in with the law. What's his name? Bergerke? Bergerke. Perfect name. In 2006, the lawyer and former lawmaker. So he's a lawyer. That's good. Former lawmaker. Love that. Pleaded no contest to charges that he used his cell phone to take a picture of a partially nude woman in a tanning salon. Which begs the question, which part? Was she partially? She's partially nude, so she... What does that mean? She's got socks on. Don't want those feet to be... I want to be tanned from head to knee. All right, moving on. We have a Brandon break-in. Brandon break-in? This is the most ridiculous story of the week. These two, I'm assuming kids, either they're in their 20s, they're kids. They broke into Brandon's quick stop, stole more than $2,000 worth of vape pens and tobacco products. Okay, this is why it's hurting. Why... Okay, okay, maybe you're nicotine addicted. There's better stuff in that store. Yeah. Than vape pens. Look, one-track mind, you know? Like, God, I need a cigarette. Let's go in here and get one. I like the way they broke in. They apparently threw a dumbbell through a large plate of glass. That works. These guys are getting their nick fix. Yeah, not going for the register, not going for the booze, not going for anything else. Just right to the tobacco products. Jones and Fur say, get me those watermelon vapes. Scumbags. Equally ridiculous, a Chittenden County resident was indicted on charges of stealing five high-end Teslas last year. He has now changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. I guess the evidence was stacked against him. I guess so. I guess you might call this shocking. I love the removal of the glass. Yeah, you gotta get the character. Trying to work in some of these puns here for these stories. So, yeah, this dude looks like he did it. Where was this? He bought them all over the place, but brought them back to Vermont. Well, he stole them all over the place. He stole them and then bought them. Worth $600,000. So Tesla's like a $125,000 car now? Look at Matt doing math on the fly after a brownie. That is an appearance of tequila. That is impressive. Yeah, I agree. I can still do the old math. That's amazing. Look at that. Wow. Yeah, when I'm 91 drooling my oatmeal, I'll be like, what's 6 times 6? And I'll call him the human calculator for nothing. Yeah, you're right, Matt. $120,000. That's sticker price. That's sticker price. Okay, you're right. All right, moving on. Why is there a picture of a burnt... Because one of the cars ended up on frozen Shelburne Bay on fire. Nobody knows why. That story was what? A couple... How many years ago? 2019. Yeah, do you remember? Yeah, I want these Coen Brothers movie that leads up to that scene. Guy steals five Teslas. Burns one of them on a frozen lake. And he smuggles the Teslas into Vermont to sell them. Why? Because he lived here, I guess. All right, let's take a good look at this fella. This guy, I read this story. He does not look like he has mental illness. No, but he does. He has some questionable ear jewelry choices. Right. Maybe herpes, but he does not look like he has mental illness. So, in Williston, police say officers who responded to a trespassing complaint at a store in Williston were bitten numerous times by a man who was supposed to be under a 24-hour curfew. This happened at a Best Buy at 7.40. In the evening. That's like... If you're part of the geek squad over there, you're winding down, you're like, OK, no one's going to Best Buy at 8pm, right? But you close at 9, so you're still there just in case. Somebody might wander in and look at the TV because they're just burned out. Or someone needs a printer ink or a cord, like, really, like, last minute or something, but really, it's probably pretty dead. This dude walks in, and he's out of control. They call the cops, and he's just biting them. Well, the most interesting part of the story is that Zachariah Parker of Swann, he's from Swann, too. What? What's going on up in Swann? Bad people coming out of there. That's a long drive. It is. Maybe it's the closest Best Buy. I think it is. I think it is. He's got to get that... What was it? Frank Hatton? Jack Swann? Who's that guy? The jazz guy? Milton? Stan Kenton. Stan Kenton's CD. Stan Kenton. Who's this? My father used to have records, Stan Kenton records. 78. We talked about it two hours ago. Yeah. It's fine. It's fine. Moving on. But they say he has a lengthy criminal history with 26 active open cases. This guy's my hero. How does he keep going? How does he stay free? Once you hit 10, you're like, well, I guess I'll just have as many active cases as possible. So he was released on a 24-hour curfew in January, which obviously... And has had 14 interactions with the police since then. So the 24-hour curfew is nothing. If he's had 14 interactions since, he should be in jail. But I think he should be in a mental institution, but we don't have those anymore. No face tattoos. No. Shocking. It is shocking. Shocking. Shocking. You're going to take your glasses off. No. Not for that. I can't think of a best buy pun, so I'll have to wait for that. All right, Glo. I added this at the last minute. All right, this is for you, Glo. Apparently this is your fella, JP. You know him. Hold on, hold on. I'm supposed to know this only because I work nights at a library? No, you know this guy. JP? Oh my god, yes! I love this guy! Okay, moving on. No, come on. Jacques. Jacques Paul Martin. I know him as JP. This guy is the goodwill hunting of UVM. He's really a very, very bright person working as a janitor. And he's from Flemington, New Jersey. Oh, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. This is the first time, right? Yeah, you got it right at the end. Yeah, so he started this little book thing, this book nook up at University of Vermont. And he's been putting books and stuff up there. Books are making a comeback, I think. I think they're going to be around for a while. So he used to work in the Davis Center, and he shifted over, I think, to a different college, different building? But he still comes over there and puts books and takes them. He says he comes to work an hour early and does this book thing. You should see the stuff he makes. He finds, it's like, you know, it's the UVM farm where they grow corn or whatever. Yeah, that's what they grow. Anyway, he, all this, every, you know, it used to be sort of like the burial of all the dead cows and things like that. The garbage dump that was on that property at one time. So he digs all this stuff out, including bones and rusty. But he builds these, what do they call them? Cairns? Yeah, cairns. Yeah, they build these. Yeah, unbelievable. Those are like the Buddhist rock piles, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he builds these, and he adds, he includes like cow bones and rusty this and signs. It's really amazing. It's really very cool. It's a good place to walk a dog. And he's a very interesting cat. Oh, yeah. Remember that time we just happened to be there when his friend with the scythe? Yeah, he had a scythe. A scythe? Scythe. Scythe? Scythe. Okay. Scythe. Did he show Scythe on scene? He was cutting the grass. He was showing us how he cut the grass with this. It's a blade that looks like, you know, a present moment. I know what a scythe is. Oh, I'm sorry. I play Dungeons and Dragons. Or murder weapons. And it was amazing. There was this grass, and it was just as if he used a lawnmower. Unbelievable. He's precise with the scythe. Yeah, precise. Precise scythe. Precise. So Jacques was trying to learn from him. Unfortunately, I can't remember that man's name. No. But anyways, he's a nice guy. He has done this amazing project that he has. It's a labor of love for him. And he's taken a lot of garbage out of the ground and used it for art. Yeah, art. It's on the corner of Swift and Speer Street. There's a farm there. You can park at the barn. Walk through the cornfield, and you'll see his cairns. It's a nice little walk. Great place to take your dog. Until they, like they did last year, put some poison in the ground. That got dark. Well, I mean, they said we – but now, last year was the first time they put insecticide or something. I've been walking there for, well, 17 years. Oh, Glo, you'll appreciate this. What? So this morning, I was walking over there on the green, and I saw this shady-looking character over there. Sorry, I always point in the wrong direction. I saw this shady-looking character with a dog, and I was walking up, and he's looking at me, and the dog's doing dog duty. And I was like – kind of slowed down. The guy's looking at me, looking at the dog, looking at me. I'm kind of walking by. I walk back. I'm like, I don't think this guy's going to pick it up. He had, like, one hand on a cane and one hand, like, something else. I didn't see any bags, is what I'm saying. There's no bags. And I was like, I'm going to turn around and say something. And so then I turned around to, like – I, like, turned my body to, like, do this crosswalk, and I looked at him. He had a bag, and he was picking it up. Good for you. He's lucky. But I was about to let him know, like, hey, man. You need a bag? Can't just be letting that do it. Not there, anyway. You want me to rub your nose in that? It's terrible. Yeah, I almost beat up an old man, Glo. Good for you. Moving on. Speaking of wildlife, mouse life, rodent life, the state of Vermont has put out a plea to the citizens. Long story short, touch the wildlife. Uh-oh. Especially when they're young. They might be cute. They might seem like they need your help. Oh, I know. They might be mice that you find at the Blue Mall. But even if that's the case – I end up eating my ham and cheese. But even if that's the case, they're asking you not to take them. Not only does it harm the animals, it's also against the law. Oh, no. You broke the law. Oh, my. So this is especially about deer. Because the fawns will come up to you. They don't know any better. They're like, what's going on? Who are you? And a lot of people are like, I'll feed you, fawn. You're cute. You don't look like anybody I know. I'll take you home. Maybe I'll pet you. I'll take you home while you're wild in my kitchen. But, yeah, it's just a warning to anyone who's thinking about possibly transporting wildlife. Driving them around in your hands. For like a half hour. It says here, don't buy three jars of baby food. Well, you have anything to say to yourself? Not only are you breaking laws. I'm just a putz when it comes to this. You know, I just can't do it. What do you mean? I don't know. Maybe I have a Mother Teresa wand for animals, not for humans. The humans can all burn to hell. Humans helped with COVID wiped out half the United States. Any of you listeners, Glo is pro-COVID. She's the only person I know. Pro-COVID. Glo is Thanos. Glo wants half the world gone. Yeah, Mother Teresa would have done the same thing. Mother Teresa of rodents. Anyway, you're right. I know, you can't help yourself. What are you going to do? It's in your blood. Yeah, I think so. It's in her blood. You're not going to just be like, oh, that mouse looks like it's struggling and then walk away. It's not going to happen. No, sorry. I mean, yeah. Not where it was. I mean, if it was right by some grass or something, but not on a cement sidewalk. And they were just like, no way, this little poor thing. So the mother must have been frightened and dropped it. Maybe. Maybe. Or just rejected it. The mouse found its rightful mother. Are you going to put that thing in a little mouse house? No, I'm going to let him out in the yard. This article says, I'm just kidding. I mean, I just, I don't want to make you feel bad. I imagine like you'd be like, go free, mouse. And then two seconds later, a hawk comes down and picks it up and takes it away. Okay. Well, at least he's not living in my kitchen anymore. He's having a thrill before he, uh. He had a good life. Yeah. He had a good two weeks. How long does a mouse usually live? That's what I don't know. I know, it's out in a wild. Is that like a mystery? That's a good question. Oh, probably a year and a half. I think it's more than that. They've got to mate a couple of times, right? I think it's more than that too. How long do pet mouse live? This thing says about three years. Wait, wait. This is not a pet mouse. This is a. I mean, it pretty much is. You're feeding it and carrying it. No, like a field mouse. Field mouse. Yeah. Yeah, that's probably pretty much what it is. Yeah, of course it is. It's the cutest little. An adult field mouse will live a maximum of one year. Like the maximum. So if he had this great two weeks. And can skip the rest of his life. He's done well. I mean, he's got to be eating garbage the rest of his life, right? In six months, that mouse can kill itself legally in Vermont. Legally in Vermont. Yeah, six months to live. Wow. Oh, man. He's done a lot of good here. Do you all want to get out of here? I'm ready. Yeah. Bye-bye. Only the President will have the access to this button. This button is the most dangerous button in the world. You mean this button? Yeah, I'm waiting for this spring to ease into summer. Yeah, my wealth failed. Soon. Like, it's not cold enough to really complain, but it's like, fuck. Like, come on. I've been walking in rain all week. Yeah. It sucks. Did you see my project out there? Nope. I dug a big hole. And the rainwater has filled that hole. OK, now it's a pond. All right, well. Nice mosquitoes there soon. That'd be nice. Yeah. And that kind of like stagnant water smell, you know, like marshy. Yeah. Cool. Hey. That's not good for her. That's what we got to look forward to, a little bit of stagnant mosquito water for them to breathe in. Maybe next I'll have electricity brought out there. For what? I don't know. I'll find something. Did you recognize the lead actor of something you've seen? Well, I think, well, I didn't really recognize him, but I think he's from that cat movie, right? Yeah, he is. What was it called? What's that movie called? The cat movie? The cat buys the baseball team? Rhubarb. Rhubarb. Oh, yeah. What a great movie. Don't you think it was funny? Yeah, it was. It's not like the morning you thought it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was completely stupid, but it was funny. You know, like, I had those moments. I thought the best was when the cat's running after the dogs all around the base. Is. Right? Yeah, I thought that was funny. Instead of like the other way around. That was fun. It's good to find movies like that, though. I mean, how could you not like it? It's true. Right? I think it would please anyone, no? I don't know. I don't think Hitler would like it. Yeah. He didn't understand baseball for a while. Also, it was probably written by a Jew. Yeah, it probably was. Aye.