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00:24:38

Problems: The Awful Sisters Christmas Special

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2020/12/23

It’s been a challenging year. Families are trying to figure out how to be together for the holidays when they can’t be together physically. Welcome to Problems, a Christmas special. Problems is a series about comfortable, upper middle class people who have a lot to complain about. This year, Pam and her two sisters, Andrea and Amanda, are planning a Christmas caroling zoom call to their parents. In a series of zoom calls they plan and practice. But it’s just really hard. Credits Amanda is played

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00:22:59

Surviving COVID, a Fever Dream

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2020/12/15

Daniel Kirk is a children’s book author and illustrator and he lives with his wife in New Jersey, about twelve miles outside of Manhattan. They were both infected with COVID last March, before it had spread in the United States. They still don’t know where they got it. By now we know a lot more about COVID. We know the symptoms. We can recite the symptoms. But what does it actually feel like to struggle to breathe? And for those who become deathly ill–who slip into some state between waking and

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00:23:38

A Talk About the F-Word, with Bill Schubart

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2020/12/03

Bill Schubart is a writer and a cultural and political commentator. He’s chaired a lot of important boards here in Vermont. He’s really smart and he talks a lot and a lot of people listen to him. What he talks less about is that he’s struggled with being fat his entire life. He’s not averse to talking about it. In fact he wrote a brilliant collection of stories called Fat People in 2010. But it’s not the sort of thing that comes up in conversation. In this show, we talk about it. For more about

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00:12:56

Shaking out the Numb

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2020/11/23

I first interviewed them when they played in Vermont in 2017 and we became friends. In fact Amelia is the only person with whom I have two-hour phone conversations that start like this: ‘Hey. What are you doing?’ ‘Nothing. What are you doing?’ ‘Nothing.’ This podcast was an experiment. The interviews were all recorded over the phone during Covid….on back porches at night, by rivers, in fields, and sometimes in closets. Nick and Amelia weren’t interested in a standard set of questions about how they

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00:41:47

Officer Clemmons

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2020/11/13

François Clemmons was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1945 on the plantation where his great great grandmother Laura May’s family had been slaves, then he moved with his mother and siblings and aunts and cousins to Youngstown, Ohio during the Great Migration. Youngstown is where he started singing, and he never stopped singing. He sings in the middle of sentences, he sings on the way to the bathroom, he sings like the world depends on it, which maybe it does. But you know him already. Or those of

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00:23:13

I Am In Here

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2020/10/29

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230694656″ params=”color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Mark Utter was born with a form of autism that makes it impossible for him to say what he’s thinking. For the first thirty years of his life, Mark did not have access to the world of words, except as a listener. An observer. When he was thirty, he was introduced to supported typing, and for the first time in his life, with the help

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00:06:16

I Hate Google Meet

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2020/10/29

I’ve been doing a couple freelance jobs for extra money. One requires a great deal of video conferencing. I have learned that I do not excel at video conferencing and at the moment I knew this with certainty, my recorder was close by, so I recorded some thoughts on the subject. Then an audio producer in London heard it and did a remix version of it. So here is a short dip into my state of mind during this election season, this world burning, this age of video conferencing. There is some

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00:25:21

Karl Hammer and the Donkeys

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2020/09/24

Karl Hammer is the founder and president of the Vermont Compost Company in East Montpelier, right up the hill from Montpelier, the state capital. I first heard about Karl from my friend Rosana, who used to be married to him. She told me about how they had puppies one winter, and Karl decided to compost their poop on the floor in the house, which he sweetened with donkey manure and hardwood bark and hay. Karl started as a vegetable and dairy farmer on a hill farm in Vershire Vermont. He had a

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00:39:07

Crossing Guard

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2020/08/24

A GUEST SHOW from one of my favorite radio producers….Bianca Giaever. During a period of personal loneliness, radio-maker Bianca Giaever set out into New York City, hoping to connect with another lonely stranger. She began visiting Catholic churches, and eventually, she met Sophia — a school crossing guard. In this piece, Bianca documents Sophia’s life for many months… weaving between the ordinary life of a school crossing guard, and larger themes of loneliness, God, and the quest to live a

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00:19:22

Winnie

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2020/08/11

Winnie Wilkinson is originally from Jamaica but she spent half her life in New York City before moving up to St. Albans, Vermont, where black people make up 2.52 percent of the population. Winnie has family all over the country, and she has a lot of family members who’ve been harassed by the police, which is what I went to talk with her about. But it’s not what we talked about. Instead, we talked about God and about slavery–two things that have a profound impact on how Winnie thinks about

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00:24:27

Knots and Pandemics

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2020/07/23

Clare is the curator of the Museum Of Everyday Life, which lives in a barn on Route 16, about eight miles from Glover, Vermont, population 2000. Over the years, the Museum of Everyday Life has given us the toothbrush, the mirror, bells and whistles–celebrations of objects we use everyday in our unglamorous everyday lives. This year’s exhibit features the knot. It’s not quite finished, because as Clare was preparing the exhibit, she was also working her other job as a nurse at a small rural

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00:10:45

Leland in a Pandemic

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2020/06/22

I met my friend Leland when he was in first grade and he came over to play with my son Henry. For six years now, we’ve been having a yearly conversation about how he’s doing and what he’s thinking about. He just finished his sophomore year at the Central Vermont Career Center in Barre, which is a technical education school. He was never big on regular school, even though he knows more about geography than I’ll ever know. Leland lives in an old farmhouse on a dirt road looking down over Pekin

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00:19:42

1900 Cars

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2020/06/03

Last month a friend of mine sent me a picture of miles and miles of cars lined up waiting for food that was being distributed by the National Guard here in Vermont. Nineteen hundred cars. I’d never seen anything like it, and it took me a minute to even believe it. And when I told a friend about it…a perfectly smart and thoughtful friend…he said, “Well, they probably don’t really need it. I mean, those are pretty nice cars…” It turns out there are lot of ways to be food insecure, and they’re all

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00:18:13

Our Show Seven

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2020/04/16

Here’s our last show, which also happens to be show number seven. In this show you heard Cheering healthcare workers in Barcelona and Toronto Greg’s son practicing trumpet on a rainy night in Plainfield, VT Brooke in Denver Colorado Rob on the accordian in Adamant, VT Bianca in Brooklyn, NY Gideon and his mother Kathryn in High Falls, NY Liv singing in Los Angeles, CA Toria in Boulder, CO Edward and his daughter in Forth Worth, TX Shane singing about dinosaurs in Minnesota The 5pm one song

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00:23:13

Our Show Six

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2020/04/11

This is Our Show, number six. Your recordings about the pandemic. In this show you heard from: Alicia and Liv in Los Angeles, CA Ada in Marfa, Texas Anna in Bennington, Vermont The sound of rain in a woodstove from Bruce in Montreal Bill in New York City Morten in Southampton, United Kingdom Eli in Philadelphia, PA Katz in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Shana in Auchterarder, Scotland Samantha, somewhere in South Africa Jen in East London Bev and her mother Marj and her father Bill, in

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00:23:13

Our Show Five

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2020/04/07

Here’s Our Show, number five…your recordings about the pandemic. In this show you hear from: Niels in Copenhagen, Denmark Thomas singing in El Cerrito, CA Rachel in Olympia, Washington Rob and his kids from Olympia, Washington Louisa in Brittany, France Another meditation from Cali in Florida Tomas in Berlin, Germany Molly’s bells in Las Cruces, NM Esther in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ada and Mathew in Marfa, TX Carlos, in Bethesda, MD The Associate Producer for this series is the excellent,

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00:15:46

Our Show Four

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2020/04/02

Here is Our Show 4, your recordings during the pandemic. Thank you for sending me remarkable recordings from all over the world, and the intense privilege of making shows with them. In this show you hear from: Bill in New York City Clive in Toronto Tim in Durango, Colorado Bianca in New York City Andrew’s son reading Pi in Northhampton, Mass. Kelly in New Braunfels, Texas Ralph in North Wolcott, Vermont Amelia in Durham North Carolina Music by hand habits and Amelia Meath. Your Recordings! Keep

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00:13:55

Our Show Three

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2020/03/29

This is Our Show number three…made from your recordings during the pandemic. Keep that tape coming. Let’s keep making damn shows. In this show you hear from: Elliott in Brooklyn and his mother Roberta who’s outside of Chicago Carlos in Bethesda Ryan in West Virginia Katy in New York City Darren in the middle of the south coast of England Silvia in Barcelona Jessica in Minneapolis Alicia and Liv in Los Angeles Scott in Streatham, London Greta in Los Angeles Karen on an island near Stockholm Sarah

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00:11:58

Our Show Two

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2020/03/27

This is the second installment of Our Show, which is about all of us during this pandemic, and is made from all the recordings you’re sending to me from wherever you are in the world, in whatever isolated circumstance. I’m in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in a third floor walk-up, with my son Henry. I have plenty of time to edit. So keep sending your stories. Here’s Show Two. In this story you hear from: Bianca and Matt in New York City My sister Missy in Damariscotta, Maine Craig and his wife and

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00:13:28

Our Show One

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2020/03/25

It’s amazing. An entire planet of people living mostly in isolation…or those of us lucky enough to be well. It’s the darkest thing to happen in my lifetime, but also strangely the most unifying. We’re all experiencing the very same thing at the same time, but not together. Which is why I wanted to make this show. I asked you to send me recordings from where you are so we could make a show about all of us. And you did. And they are remarkable, and there are too many to make just one show. So I’m

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