Larry Massett died last week. He was my favorite radio producer and my mentor and all week I'm running his stories. Today is a conversation btw Larry and Joe Frank about the Porsche and BMW and which is better. Also it's a drag race.

Here's a story about an awesome library that straddles the US/Canadian border and a recent visit to this library by our Secretary of Homeland Security, @KristiNoem, where she behaved in a way that was profoundly and objectively embarrassing.

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Podcast and radio people. Are there new apps/methods for gettting good, warm sound in phone/internet interviews? I'm interviewing someone in another country and want good sound but don't want someone in room w her while I interview. Advice?.

Third installment of What Now Sounds Like. Recordings, sounds, primal screams from around the world that I hope they will keep us all company in a strange time.

Stellar article @ the the Civic Standard in @NewYorker. So many writers get Vermont wrong. They leave out all the salt and subtlety. Chelsea Edgar KILLED it here. This shit is next level. Also best coining of phrase 'cheese and shit'. Ever.

Forrest Foster found a new old truck. It's a Christmas miracle. I went up and drove around with him and we talked about the truck and his weird stint as a sexton and I complained about feeling old.

can someone tell me how the roads are in VT right NOW? I have to go to Lebanon from Calais and I want to know what's happening out there. Anyone?.

See this Instagram photo by @norwichpublib

Active drug addiction is like a world under the world. This is a story about its rules and relentless demands. Warning: This story contains explicit descriptions of drug use.

can the generals and Taylor swift go door to door in swing states from now until November?.

A story about #aphasia, and singing, and patient listening, and getting comfortable with silence. Making this show reminded me how MUCH MORE FUN the world would be if we could just expand our definition of 'normal'.

We take language for granted. Like breathing. So what is it like to struggle to speak? In world that's uncomfortable with silence? Sometimes it's easier to sing. This is a story about the Aphasia Choir of Vermont. Which is awesome.

Can someone tell me what this is? It’s traveling pretty fast across my perennial garden. I can’t tell if it’s a rust or a fungus or a bug or what. anybody have some ideas?

I recommend this. Particularly now.

Great story about the deep systemic problems in the VT judicial system. Thank you @lseconnors.

Tara and I went to visit Finns memorial in the woods in Glover. We sat in the cabin Finn's friends made for him. We talked about how grief evolves. And in a conversation about the hardest thing, Tara managed to find a reason to say to me, 'bitch, please.'

Vacation.

I hung out with Forrest in his sugarhouse and we talked about everything that can go wrong in a sugarhouse like drinking too much and trying to open the stove without gloves and burning the ‘meat’ off your hands. Also we talked about pleasanter things.