The 4 Best Rumble Strip Podcast Episodes
1) Finn and the Bell
Finn Rooney killed himself in Walden, Vermont. This is a story about who he was and what he left.
2) Heartbreak Hotel. End of an Era
This summer, a one-in-a-thousand-year flood hit the village of Plainfield, Vermont. A local apartment building, which everyone called the Heartbreak Hotel, collapsed and washed away down the Great Bro...Show More
3) The World Under the World
All four of the people in this story are in recovery, but they spent years in the world of active drug addiction--a kind of world underneath the world. They’re aware of it in ways that most of us are ...Show More
4) Fifty. A Phoenix Moment.
A show about turning 50 and recording Total Eclipse of the Heart.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Tractor Pull
My friend Ralph Rockwell is a mechanic in Wolcott, Vermont, and he runs a tow truck business. He's been rebuilding old vehicles since he was 15. Now he's 72 and he restores old tractors. I don't know...Show More
6) Susan Randall. Hold the Line
A couple weeks ago my friend Susan Randall came to visit. She’s a private investigator and we’ve been friends for thirty years and every now and then we get together and compare notes on our lives, a...Show More
7) Zombie Snails
My friend Bryan Pfeiffer is a writer and field naturalist in Montpelier, Vermont. And recently he published an article about his discovery of these crazy zombie snails…whose eye stalks have been taken...Show More
8) Jay Allison on Why We Should Save Public Radio
This is a conversation with Jay Allison about the recent attack on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Recently, Congress passed a rescission bill that eliminates $9 billion in previously alloca...Show More
9) Ladies Pond
No. 10 Pond is where I go swimming in the summer. All kinds of people go there. Kids, grownups, grandparents, mothers and fathers, dogs. But ALWAYS there is a group of ladies....standing thigh deep i...Show More
10) What class are you Susan Ritz?
This is the last episode in season 6 of What Class are You?, a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Susan Ritz grew up in a wealthy family in Minnesota. For the past 36 years, she's lived in ce...Show More