Vermont Catch-up (Ketchup)
Vermont's least serious, most entertaining news source.
Episodes
May 4, 2024 • 157 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National No Pants Day
- Another Howard Dean run?
- Scott doubles down
- Frozen pizza recall
- 900% increase in blood disease at UVM MC
- Do nurses know how much other people make?
- Dental hygienist shortage
- Report: Burlington offers just ‘adequate’ nature space
- Vermont road crews navigate multiple mud seasons
- Killington wants to expand
- Rabies vaccine bait drops to begin this weekend
- The Crazy Contraption Camp
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April 26, 2024 • 136 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National take your pick day
- Burlesque day
- Hug an Australian day
- Your first kiss day
- Birdhouse vandal
- State Sen Bobby Starr retires
- Ex-Norwich University president sued over inappropriate behavior
- The future of downtown Brattleboro uncertain
- Barre to Sell Two Parking Lots for $1 to Housing Developer
- Barn preservation grants
- Airport taxi rate
- Vermont confirms first measles case since 2018
- Impacts of Vermont’s sin...
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April 20, 2024 • 147 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Pizza Delivery Driver Appreciation Day
- Joe's Pond officially iced out early Sunday morning + Danville man winner
- Warning: ‘Cicada-geddon’ is only a month away (wcax.com)
- Vermont’s elderly workforce
- Restaurant owners say Burlington police failed to respond during vandalism
- ER visits increase due to e-bikes
- Fatal car crashes finally trending down
- Welch sighting - he’s a real Senator, y’all
- Finall...
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April 13, 2024 • 121 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy International Licorice Day
- 160K people drove to the state for Monday’s eclipse
- Private planes packed BTV
- Train hits car in Barton
- Bernie Sanders arsonist
- Dick Mazza resigns
- Goddard College to close after 86 years
- No impeachment for nut-kicking sheriff
- Wheeler park development goes to trial
- Would you drink Luiz Guzman's Jus?
(50:33) Break music: Ben Roque - “Charmed I’m Sure”
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April 5, 2024 • 160 mins
On this week’s show:
- Should we introduce the show to any out-of-towners?
- Happy International Plan Your Epitaph Day
- Its manure season!
- VT state troopers discipline report
- Banyai video…hahahahha
- Its too expensive to be a legislator
- Maple producers boil down how the sugaring season fared (wcax.com)
- Cheese & Wine Traders closes suddenly
- VT Flannel buys VT Teddy Bear Co
- Upon taking office, Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak pledges to...
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March 30, 2024 • 145 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy International Mermaid Day
- Weeki Wachee
- Opening Day thoughts, Matt?
- Jeon Jong-seo
- Do you have an eclipse plan?
- VT data privacy act
- Burlington police warn of GPS tracking devices
- Car thefts continue to climb as lawmakers debate stricter penalties
- VT’s most popular creemee stand for sale
- Birch syrup?
- Sen. Sears, Gov. Scott applaud Senate approval of a bill cracking down on drugs
- Final Reading: Phil Scott’s education...
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March 22, 2024 • 144 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National As Young As You Feel Day
- Pour one out for M. Emmet Wash
- Daniel Banyai looks sad behind bars with black eye
- Judge tosses sex assault conviction because sheriff deputy spoke to jurors
- Regional dispatch in limbo
- Homeless shelter costs 50K a night
- 8th annual Vermont “Beardies” awards
- VTSU offers a Weird Al class
- Burlington History & Culture Center
- Next phase of airport construction kicks off
- Dumb old ma...
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March 15, 2024 • 153 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Everything you think is wrong Day
- Bernie wants us to work 32 hours a week
- VTrans begins preliminary consideration for Amtrak expansion
- New bike safety laws
- Woman who died at Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine was
- Labor shortages in Green Mountain State leave bus drivers, passengers in a lurch
- Crash that left Vt. trooper critically injured still under investigation
- Glo's got events - Preservati...
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March 8, 2024 • 125 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Cereal Day
- Nikki Haley wins Vermont
- New lady mayor - Emma Mulvaney-Stanak
- Winooski votes to approve its share of bridge
- Voters reject some school budgets
- New bill to ban guns at polls
- Warmest winter on record
- Biden approves flood recovery
- Golfing weather
- Can UVM grad students afford housing?
- State of towns allowing weed sales
(50:56) Break music: Shore Rites - "And Over. "
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March 2, 2024 • 151 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Pig Day
- Lawmakers on verge of doing something cool…..then form a committee instead
- Hackers affect pharmacies in VT
- Are we going cashless?
- Lets get that wealth tax going
- Statewide teacher shortage
- Sunscreen at school
- Barre Montessori kids finally getting out of the basement
- Green Mountain scam calls
- UVM to unveil logo rebrand
- Update to Main Street project
- Ghost guns
- Thousands of trees to be planted in ...
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February 24, 2024 • 172 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day
- Ukranian man behind UVMMC hack
- UVM ER wants everyone to chill
- 3000 people show up for a ski jump competition
- Injured skier denied claims
- 90 year old claims skiing is secret to long life
- VT on track to become a blue zone
- VT lawmakers consider decrim inalizing psilocybin, according to the Marijuana Moment
- New bill would criminalize violence against pregnant women
- Joe’s Pond I...
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February 16, 2024 • 142 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy International Flirting Week
- Valentine’s day bandit
- Burlington election will include ranked-choice voting
- The Fight for Decker Towers
- Vermont cannabis industry asking for changes
- How Burlington is preparing for influx of eclipse visitors
- VT adoptees can now access birth records
- Health commissioner argues to keep mobile devices in schools
- New law attempts to address car break-ins
- Vermonter - new fastest woman al...
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February 10, 2024 • 175 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Read in the Bathtub Day
- FL / TX trip highlights and lowlights
- VT Lawmakers decry disturbing patterns of homophobia
- And anti-semitism at Jay Peak
- Judges leaving financial disclosures blank
- Montpelierians can get mail again
- Qualifications for local officials? Nah.
- A bad police story - ketamine version
- Good cop story
- Bad cop story - hot mic
- Burlington 30 million dollar renovation
- The downtown BTV hotel sw...
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February 3, 2024 • 48 mins
Not a normal show. This is a collection of very short clips from shows 107-142. If you don't like a clip, just wait a few seconds.
We return to our normal routine next week - can't wait!
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup
Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4
Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.com
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January 15, 2024 • 212 mins
This is not a typical show. This is an episode full of ramblings, half ideas and chatter during our breaks. It's fun, but its not coherent.
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/VermontCatchup
Follow Matt on twitter: @MatthewBorden4
Contact the show: 24theroadshow@gmail.com
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January 6, 2024 • 144 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National “Whipped Cream” Day
- Burlington celebrates New Year’s Eve with Champ effigy
- VT tops moving destinations list
- Central Vermont legislators to introduce omnibus flood relief bill - VTDigger
- COVID highest in a year
- Sheriff accused of assault will not have trial moved to home county, judge rules
- BPD 2023 police report
- Tunbridge Trails battle rages on
- CT woman heads to VT for aid-in-dying law
- Scott administra...
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December 31, 2023 • 161 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy New Year’s Eve
- Poll finds Vermonters bullish on governor, sour on lawmakers
- Joan Shannon wins Democratic nomination for Burlington mayor
- Frustration mounts over ongoing VT unemployment claim dysfunction
- Cost to upgrade VT IT systems
- Burlington homelessness - fires, safety and national rates
- How much is a bulldozer?
- 2023 was Burlington’s warmest year on record (until next year)
- 200+ terminally ill Vermonters ...
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December 6, 2023 • 131 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Pawnbrokers Day!
- Chittenden County Landlords Are Evicting at a crazy rate
- Paying homeless kids is working out so far
- Ballint votes “present” on condemning anti-semitism
- Santa flying by UVM Medical Center
- After Slate Ridge inspection, judge reissues
- Maybe that stabbing was a big misunderstanding
- Vermont’s foster care IT system predates the internet
- 2 off-duty Burlington cops cited for speeding on mo...
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December 2, 2023 • 169 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy National Eat a Red Apple Day!
- 3 Palestinians college students shot in Burlington
- People outraged Ben & Jerry’s hasn’t taken a stance on Israel-Hamas war
- Peter Welch calls for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict - should we?
- Where is flood money going?
- VT winter going to be heavy and wet
- Total eclipse of the sun
- Police phone scam
- Possible VT serial killer from Vermont dies in Kentucky prison
- Are you down...
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November 25, 2023 • 136 mins
On this week’s show:
- Happy Black Friday!
- We lost Queen Bee’s!
- Banyai agrees to inspection
- Burlington business owners reeling after 2 break-ins in a row
- Phil Scott has a plan to address crime. ACLU opposes.
- The Boves Bros are still dicks
- Is wind dead in Vermont?
- After makeshift location closes, Montpelier is left without a post office
- Dorset Street and Williston Road intersection sees lane changes
- A bike path from Mass. to Quebec?
- Th...
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