Rumble Strip

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  The Last Chapter 15.09.2026 22min

  When Bill was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he asked his best friend to help him die.
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  Summertime and dead batteries 08.09.2026 14min

  This is the third episode in a periodic series called Life of Kaye, which is about the life of Kaye, but also about what life mostly sounds like and feels like, day after day after day. This episode is called Summertime and dead batteries.
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  Places Go 04.08.2026 10min

  This is a special guest show from the excellent CBC series, Love Me. For the past few months, Chris and his partner Beth have been crying. A lot. What’s triggering the waterworks? Reading Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” to their toddler. It gets Chris and Beth weepy every... single... time. Eavesdropping on home recordings, we join Chris and Beth on their absurdist quest to get through this kids’ book without crying. Featuring Chris Attaway. More episodes of Love Me are available everywhere you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/LMxRS
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  Rest in Peace Bonnie Tyler 10.07.2026 20min

  A few days ago we lost a power ballad hero. Bonnie Tyler is gone. She wrote my favorite song, Total Eclipse of the Heart. Years ago I forced people to listen to me sing this song and then I made a show about it and forced MORE people to listen to me sing it, and talk about turning fifty. So I'm playing it again in honor of Bonnie Tyler.
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  Life of Kaye: Healthy Dollars 18.06.2026 12min

  This is the second episode of a periodic series I’m making called Life of Kaye. Making Rumble Strip is the closest I can get to understanding what it’s like to be someone else. But what would happen if I wasn’t standing around holding a mic and asking a lot of questions? For the last year I’ve been asking my friend Kaye Phipps to record voice memos on her phone and send them to me. I love listening to these recordings. It feels like looking at a whole life through a keyhole. Life of Kaye isa show about someone getting through the day…with all the funny and boring and sad and surprising things that make up day to day life. But edited a lot. In this episode: health insurance and karaoke
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  Life of Kaye: Some kind of a speaker 28.05.2026 10min

  Welcome to a new, periodic series called Life of Kaye. This first episode is called: Some Kind of a Speaker. The series is produced by me and Kaye Phipps. Send us your comments if you have them and thank you so much for listening.
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  A Day on the Road with a Visiting Nurse 21.05.2026 18min

  Home health and hospice nurses provide all kinds of healthcare to people in their homes...day and night, and in mud and snow. I knew of these folks because I met some of them after my father came home from the hospital. A nurse came to help with his medications. A VNA therapist came to give him physical therapy. But I wasn’t really aware of these nurses and therapists UNTIL my family really needed them, and I expect there are a lot of people out there like me. So this is a show about the nurses who travel, and what their days are like, and what they know about this place because of the work they do.
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  Ladies' Day at Vermont Quick Lube 01.05.2026 7min

  Vermont Quick Lube is a stay-in-your-car oil change place and car wash in Barre, Vermont. Wednesday is Ladies' Day and since I love Vermont Quick Lube, I made a story about it. On a Wednesday.
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  A Requiem for Larry Massett 30.04.2026 53min

  A special airing of A Requiem for Larry Massett, produced by The KItchen Sisters Present, and Barrett Golding and Transom. It's really good.
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  I Eat the Marshmallow 09.04.2026 13min

  This is a same-day reaction to this morning’s story called: A springtime show about how about the economy that partly explains why we feel ashamed. That story features a wonderful listener in Scotland who is a money manager and made some fascinating comments about the last class series. I asked her if she’d be willing to share some of these thoughts on the phone, and she was willing, and that was this morning’s story. A couple hours later I got a reaction audio from one of the people featured in the class series who we talked about in this morning’s story. So I’m playing it. Because it’s great and because the point of the class series is to talk about these things and this is almost like a real goddamn conversation! What Class are You? is a series I make for Vermont Public.
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  A Springtime Show about the Economy that Partly Explains why We’re Ashamed 09.04.2026 20min

  This is a conversation with a money manager in Scotland who has given a great deal of thought to why many of us feel confused and ashamed about our financial lives. After the What Class are You? shows, I often receive interesting commentary, and I’m always frustrated that this commentary can’t become part of a wider conversation. So after receiving two fascinating comments from EM in Scotland, I asked her if she’d be willing to share some of her thoughts on the economy on the phone. She said yes, and then we had a conversation longer than she ever could have imagined. EM responded primarily to two shows. One featured a woman called Trudy, who worked all kinds of jobs in her life, and toward the end of her working years, she realized that she was not going to have enough money for a comfortable retirement, but she would have a little too much to qualify for services that would make her retirement more comfortable, so she made sure that she retired with little enough money that she could qualify for services. The other story that EM responded to was about Kaye, who talks about how not having money makes her feel like a child, and that all the people with money seem like the adults. Fair warning, I ask a lot of dumb questions in this show, because I don’t know much about the economy. But I’m figuring that maybe there are some people out there like me. And even though I don't know much about economics, most of what she says here has deep resonance. She is naming something I feel but don’t understand.  
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  Hold On 06.03.2026 16min

  Six years ago, seventeen-year-old Finn Rooney killed himself in his home in Walden, Vermont. A couple days later, his community held a bonfire in the parking lot of Hazen Union High school in Hardwick. Hundreds of people came. Tom Gilbert, who organized the bonfire, asked his friend Heidi Wilson to write a song for the occasion. The song was called Hold On. She made sure it was a song everyone could sing. And they did. Now people are singing this song all over the world. People in Minneapolis have been singing it to ICE agents. They’re singing it for their neighbors who are afraid to leave their houses. They’re singing it in Wales and Australia and Iralend in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. Peole are singing it all over, to give each other some comfort and some courage. This is a story about where that song came from and where it’s gone.
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  What class are you, Habib and Arwa? 29.01.2026 7min

  A conversation about the roles of race and class in the lives of two biracial teenagers in Vermont.
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  What class are you Kaye? 28.01.2026 15min

  Kaye Phipps lives in Montpelier, Vermont. Right now she works as a custodian at a local grocery store. She’s also been a florist, a housekeeper, and a house cleaner. But even though she’s sometimes working multiple jobs, she often comes up short. In this episode, Kaye talks about how having a limited income makes her feel like a child, long into adulthood.
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  What class are you Jules? 27.01.2026 9min

  Jules Guillemette grew up on their family farm in Lamoille County, Vermont, which has been in the family nearly 100 years. Since then, Jules has worked as a chef, a meat cutter and now they're an electrician. In this episode, we talk about what it means to own land of enormous value but always be struggling to save enough money.
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  What class are you Trudy? 26.01.2026 8min

  Trudy Richmond lives in subsidized senior housing in Burlington. She’s educated and worked all her life, but at a certain point, Trudy realized that she had too little money to pay for a comfortable retirement and too much to qualify for services that might make her retirement more comfortable. In this episode of What Class are You, Trudy talks with reporter Erica Heilman about how she negotiated a comfortable retirement for herself.
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  The Thanksgiving Show 09.12.2025 20min

  This is a show about Thanksgiving, and what it sounds like. It is made entirely of your recordings.
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  Thanksgiving show SAMPLER 26.11.2025 3min

  Hello all. Here's a little sample of the show I'm trying ot make with YOU this Thanksgiving...
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  Let's Make a Show about Thanksgiving 25.11.2025 2min

  This is me imploring YOU to make some recordings this year about your Thanksgiving.
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  An American Life 11.11.2025 29min

  Vaughn Hood was an 118-pound barber in his late teens when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam, and in Vaughn’s war, most men didn’t survive their first three month tour. I met Vaughn through my sister. He was her hairdresser in St. Johnsbury, and he mentioned his time in Vietnam while he was cutting her hair. They didn't talk much about it, but she recommended him to me. We sat down in the back of his salon one day and I turned my recorder on, and we had one of the most remarkable conversations I've had in my life.