Rumble Strip

Mar 02 2025 292 ep. 18 mins 1.7k

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Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.

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What Now Sounds Like, the AI Isn't Smart Edition

Mar 02 2025 20 mins

Here is the third installment of What Now Sounds Like. It occurred to me the other day that this show is more like a long song, or even ambient sound. You can listen in the shower or washing dishes or even while you’re going to sleep. The goal is to keep each other company in a strange time.

2 Seconds of Peace

Feb 14 2025 14 mins

T.O. got out of prison in Rutland a couple weeks ago, after a six and a half year bid. I met T.O. through my private investigator friend Susan Randall in May, 2017. He’d been a client of hers in a federal public defender case. T.O.’s been in and out of jail his whole adult life, and it’s become a kind of tradition for us to get together and talk when he gets out of jail. We d

What Now Sounds Like Episode 2

Jan 29 2025 15 mins

Here is episode 2 of What Now Sounds Like, a show I make that is entirely comprised of your recordings about the strange and desperate times we're living in. I'm hoping that shows made up of all of us will help us all feel less alone.

What Now Sounds Like

Jan 23 2025 17 mins

What Now Sounds Like is made by all of us. You send me recordings that sound like this time we're living in, and I make shows with them. It could be an argument, your thoughts in the middle of the night, your songs and hummings....a recording of being on hold with your insurance company...whatever. And tell your friends to send their recordings too. Just email me at rumblestripverm

Diffuse Despair

Jan 18 2025 15 mins

The world is chaotic. Systems are failing. Towns are burning. If you need to make an appointment with your doctor you may have to wait til July. So it's time to make a show about it all. I implore you to record moments of your day and send me the audio and I will try to make a show that sounds like RIGHT NOW. Email the recordings to me at [email protected].

What Class are you Tankhun?

Jan 10 2025 9 mins

A first generation experience of the American class system.

What Class Are You Katrin?

Jan 09 2025 6 mins

Katrin Tchana on the gentrification of her hometown.

What Class Are You Ingrid?

Jan 08 2025 7 mins

Retired police detective Ingrid Jonas on class in law enforcement.

What Class Are You Mark?

Jan 07 2025 7 mins

Mark LaRouche, on the comforts of 'lower class', and addiction as a class all its own.

What Class Are You Damian Renzello?

Jan 06 2025 8 mins

Damian talks about the difference between white collar and blue collar, and we compare notes on our lives because we are exactly the same age and we both grew up in Vermont and then I went to college and took tap dancing and he joined the army.