 And it's playing. Yeah, we've got these little I don't know what you call it bento boxes. Yeah containers All right, Sarah Nice to see you here. Nice to see you. Thanks everybody for joining us for out with lunch This is actually our first. This is our pilot episode This is our Chance to see if we've got a spot here on orca this shot this show is being produced by orca media in Montpelier, Vermont And we're really grateful for their production services Just right off the top no pets no politics. That's kind of a key part of the show So I guess we'll just get started with the agenda We'll introduce ourselves or do you want to introduce yourself? Yeah, I'd love to Well, thank you first David for Having me on this show such a great idea. I'm Sarah Wentworth and We know each other from all kinds of things, but just from being around Montpelier and also other media Ventures so Anyway, such a great concept for a show Because I feel like living in Montpelier. I'm always like really excited to know what's happening In our community and trying to stay connected But this is just yet another way that we can be connected to one another So real excited about this and it's like a great opportunity to have some lunch for the friends. Yeah, absolutely Yeah, we're both on our lunch breaks right now, although you're not working right now No, actually, this is my day off. That's your day off and you came in anyways. Yeah, that's gracious of you Actually, I'll take this off. Yeah We're okay on TV Um, great. Thank you for that introduction Sarah. I'm David Littlefield We started talking about the show about a week ago and we really just kind of brought it to life in the last five minutes here So we're happy to have you here with us. Um, I also I live in East Montpelier. Technically and But I'm originally from Maine and as you mentioned We both worked at other public media organizations in the state in our previous lives in our current lives as well And yeah, I feel like you and I both been interested in exploring What's possible in public media and this is really the culmination or maybe the start of that journey together Maybe a new chapter in that book. So Yep, great So this is a live call-in show We're gonna bring we got the number there up on screen if anyone wants to call in we're doing Questions and comments suggestions big theme for today is winter Holidays gift giving we are hoping to hear from anyone out there who identifies as a mother with suggestions of What might be good gifts this year for moms everyone needs to show a little bit more love to their mom generally speaking So that's definitely something we're looking forward to and also we're live on YouTube as you know So if you want to write in a question or comment right there on YouTube That's also a great way to reach us and someone's definitely monitoring those so Next thing on the agenda is what's for lunch? So you want to talk about what you got for lunch? Oh, yeah I'd love to I'm just gonna hopefully it's not too strong for everyone here in the studio Yeah, there's a lot of onions happening. Oh, wow It's a grilled cheese. Oh my gosh. I mean your basic grilled cheese. There's like curly fries. What's on the side? Those are onion rings that I had Prevee previously made, but I reheated them in one of those like panini pans Wow, yeah, like fried it in a panini pan. Well, it's like a frying pan that has a lid That's the panini press. So there's room around the edge. Okay for whatever That's cool. Well, yeah, it smells great. I know you guys can't smell it at home Or in the op when you guys wherever you're taking your lunch break, but it smells great I've got we've just got leftovers I got some leftover pasta with bread sauce that we made last night funny story actually about the salad We made these salads pre we had salad last night and then preemptively made a salad for lunch today But these bento boxes are kind of new to our family. We got actually got these at hunger mountain co-op and I'm still getting used to them and so I didn't realize I didn't have the bottom Latched so I just lifted it up and the bottom part fell out and it had this full beautiful sound there all on the floor and We did salvage some of it But our you know, we don't clean as regularly as we would like so we didn't want to eat too much food off the floor So we've got a I think actually my wife got that one unfortunately. Yeah, so kind of a bummer there Also, I don't know if my wife's watching right now But this is a minor criticism that I have of the bento box because it's metal I don't have any qualms about using a microwave and I would like to heat up my food Especially if it's like our pasta with red sauce can't heat it up You're still transferring it to another dish to heat it up And it's likely you just yeah kind of blew the whole concept so But maybe a gift idea for someone maybe I don't know wooden bento, but I don't know something you could microwave glass bento boxes Maybe yeah, that's a great idea Something to look into. Yeah, and I know we were talking about them if moms any moms that call in have Gift ideas that they'd like to share with us. We'd love to hear them. Mm-hmm. So there's the number up on screen 802-828-743-0. Yeah Okay, you go on lunch. Yeah, all right Next up no pets no politics We thought we'd just kind of jump into that Because that's kind of the it's a thrust. It's a main thrust of the show So we just thought we'd kind of clear that up right off the bat. Yeah I Don't care for pets I have two cats Hammy and gloomy off to bring in a photo next time maybe Hammy and gloomy we've had them for I don't know 10 years maybe they were okay at first and then we had kids we have to I we have two young children and Ever since kids came into the house. It's just like the cats have just gotten so much lower on the totem pole of like importance and Just this morning. Hammy threw up twice While I was making her breakfast Was it out of spite or was it a I think it was I think I hadn't gotten to her quick enough So she's like I'm gonna toss right now. I don't want to talk about it too much while we're eating but So that's just like an example, you know, those are just examples of why I don't really want pets in the house I actually like livestock and animals outside that can kind of take care of themselves But when you have animals inside that are a hundred percent dependent on your care When you like have human children, you're just like, you know, just not as prioritized. I don't know How do you feel about pets? Yeah, one question I had is it is this a position like, you know There's so much to talk about in the world like maybe We don't talk about pets in this show or is it an actual just you don't want to talk about your pets in particular So it was one question I had but didn't know okay. Yeah, I mean we are talking about my cats right now So that kind of blows that right out of the water. I don't want to spend too much more time on it but Yeah, I just I don't I respect other people enjoy pets. I just don't really want pets Do you want pets? I don't have any pets, but there is a squirrel that comes up on my porch Who actually I think will be featured at one point. You want me to just bring that up? Yeah, we might Why not? We can do whatever we want. Actually, that's that's the squirrel and I work at Red Hen And so I have all the surplus of old bread and you know, some of it was on the porch waiting to go to the compost and The squirrel was enjoying some of it, but he did make a mess which was unfortunate And I do have a photo of the mess, but he just kind of like ripped up the whole the bag And then there was some gourds in it, you know, so kind of a naughty fellow, but that's you know It's almost like pet adjacent. It's like wildlife, but it's like it's slightly domesticated And we actually have a compost update later in the show too. Yes. Yeah, we sure we get to that I'm just gonna back up again Okay, I think that's good on pets. Yeah, how about politics? Yeah, so I Think we're gonna sort of we're bearing away from any kind of We're not gonna say our position on any kind of political issue. We agreed on that before the show. Yeah Yeah, yeah for a multitude of reasons, but We think we would like to share information periodically, but it's purely For data purposes, it's data-driven. So it is just information and you can do with it what you will but It's just another Interesting symptom of a world that we're all living in and happening. So absolutely. Yeah. Yeah one one of us works for like a news Organization in their paid work and actually like can't talk about politics. Yeah, so it's very so that's the end of that Yeah, all right. We got a front porch report. We sure do. Oh man, lots of interesting This is actually one of our I think gonna be one of our most popular segments. Yeah Our front porch report today. I'd so this morning we have some some very A lot of interesting stuff going on You know know what I like about Front porch forum. I don't know if I can say that. Yeah, we'll say it I love that they have recently, you know Included the feature or they've updated their website to include photos. I noticed that yeah, it's a great So if people are you know selling things or you know, you don't have to use resort to Google Drive or yeah I'm Craigslist you can just sort of pop it on there and I don't know if folks knew that but I'm just a little tip But in speaking of that I saw there there was a really nice post Somebody was looking for twinkle lights So that goes to their holiday theme not Christmas lights though. Well, I think it's not a nomination. I think the person Said oh holiday twinkle lights of any size or color and they are happy to pay for them Wow, that sounds really reasonable street. Yeah, so Checking here before I buy new which is also a great thing for Or a great reason to use front porch forum because it's like we don't need to be participating in the The consumer rat race became sort of Reused sometimes one person is like well, I don't need this anymore. I don't I don't want this It's just sitting in my closet. Yeah, it can be someone's treasure. Yeah, I think that's great It's like a there's like a it's like a secondary like trading economy there on front porch forum Yeah, one thing I did want to highlight. I just remembered because I think of all the Holiday light strands that you know, they break every other year or whatever, you know, they don't work anymore It's like it's not worth your trouble. You don't want to throw them in the trash because they can get Worked up in like the trash Trucks and like their processing facilities and like really messed up up because it's like it You know like a wire getting tangled up in their machines. So last year there was a place in Berry Somewhere just like kind of on the main street Maybe by like resource or something where you could drop off for like a few weeks They had this like open whenever you could just drop off like your holiday lights I don't work anymore and they did something to process them or recycle them in a way that was Not as damaging to like all the machinery and stuff in the trash facility. So that's great Yeah, it's kind of like batteries like, you know, you have your container of batteries that you keep meaning to drop off Right Sort of like that. What a great community effort. Yeah, so thank goodness for that Good to know. Thank you for sharing. Yeah, but there weren't any hits back on the twinkle lights or it was actually posted today This is just yeah, this is fresh. Okay this morning. So we'll see how that evolves. But yeah, well if anyone out there Has holiday lights that they're not using Sounds like we could you could reply to that on the Montpelier front porch for him. Yeah, absolutely Just another reminder too. This is a Colin show 802-828-7430. That's the number to call anyone's welcome to call We are reaching out specifically to moms if you're just joining us People who identify as mothers who might have ideas about Christmas gifts that either they would like to receive it You can be anonymous if you want Or if you just want to offer advice for other people who are listening or watching If there's if other people out there are thinking about getting gifts for mothers in their life Just any suggestions are welcome. So yeah, thank you for that. Yeah Okay, let's go back to our agenda here. Yeah Anything else on from porch my bed? Yeah, well, there's a few there's many interesting items But one and I want to highlight here the the heading is inspector Linley and For reasons of privacy we're not we're not gonna say no, we don't know but This is a free under the free items category And this post says I have seasons two three and four of this terrific series I don't know what became of season one a mystery Free to a good home. So so they're DVDs. I think no, I think they're probably DVDs But it doesn't specify here. So But the show is inspector Linley Looking for a good home. Yeah, if anyone wants to you know Binge a new show and you know, you know, have you seen the show? Excuse me. Um, I have not seen that. Okay. Have you seen it? No, I've never heard of okay I mean, it's I I'd be interested because I do tend to like Shows that are about detectives or inspectors or especially in the British variety So, yeah, maybe I'll reply to that one. Yeah, well someone else better jump on it quick. Looks like you're doing it right now Yeah, okay. Well, thank you Sarah. Yeah, thank you for your field correspondence there Next on the agenda Update on our children's book. Do we want to get into that? I'm conscious of the time we go about nine minutes left in the show I could we could table that too because I know we have a lot of holiday stuff We were hoping to get to yeah, maybe we could table that for next time sure. Yeah Curious if there's any YouTube comments up, but yeah, what are you gonna do? All right What are you reading? Looks like you're up first Sarah or do you want to break? Do you want to eat your lunch? No, no, no, this is good So I'm reading this Terrific book. It's called under the snow, okay by Kirsten Ekman And this is can be found at our wonderful public library Kellogg-Hubert Kellogg-Hubert Excuse me And it's a mystery it's a one of your classics Scandinavian mysteries Takes place in Norway in the northern most region of Norway where the midnight Sun Happens yeah, and It's sort of a mystery a one of I'll just give a brief synopsis, but I won't give too much away An artist who works at a school in this region He mysteriously Dies he in the cold he's just found in the snow frozen, but he was a very well He was happy and we know they no one knows why so the Inspector and a friend of the artist Lindley. Yeah Inspector Lindley not Inspector Lindley, but another inspector They are embarking on this investigation. It's a very it's a I'm biting my nails on the edge of my seat I would highly recommend. I have not Finished it yet, but I will let you know Okay, and again you can find this at the Kellogg-Hubert library. Have you read anything else by that author? No, I never have although I did I wanted to see if they had written any Screenplays or had any movie because I thought it would make a terrific movie and I did find that she wrote one screenplay Although I can't remember the name of that movie. I think it's called the wolf in So we did sure sounds cool. Yeah, but the the wolf and I think it's from 2009 It does have an actor who I I know his face, but I don't remember his name and I think I did read that he actually got to speak his His dialect like he he got to speak Swedish I believe like in the way that and he never does that he usually does like friends. I switch man. Yeah Yeah, so anyway So yeah, we'll look forward to an update on that. I guess when you finish it. Yeah, yeah I would love to hear what you're reading. Yeah, actually my what bold disclosure? Yeah My wife took this book out from the library. This is $100 holiday by Bill McKibbin Vermont's own although. I think it's from Massachusetts originally But I think Vermont has adopted him the prominent environmental Activist Bill McKibbin. This is from 1998 so a little bit earlier in In his book repertoire This is the case for a more joyful Christmas So this it's a short book. I read it in two nights very brief He has this concept that I guess he's spread around for a while about the hundred dollar holiday Saying, you know, just try to aim to spend Less on the holidays. It doesn't even he's he's really gentle about it Which I really appreciate. He's not like you got a stick to this hundred dollars if you go over, you know It's not any it's not regimented like that. He's just kind of just trying to set a benchmark and this is obviously 1998 as well Just to set a benchmark to be more reasonable with the gifts that you're giving people and It's nice. It goes into like a little bit of history about Christmas and how we got to where we are now and how we celebrate the holiday going back to like medieval serfs and how serfs would go wassailing to the like local Lord and Basically, it was like the one day of the year that they could like pound on the Lord's door and like demand Like food and drink and stuff from like their Lord and the Lord just like had to do it like by their honor or whatever He'd like sometimes like money and stuff. So it was like this It was like this like drunken revelry kind of night where it's just like the power dynamics were like flipped With like the Lord in the serfs So that was like that was like an early Christmas like tradition and then as things Started to move into like the enlightenment and like industrialization and people were moving into cities and there weren't lords and serfs anymore There was still this like kind of drunken revelry Tradition or attitude around Christmas time by like the lower classes But now that people are packed into these dense cities. It was like Not as enjoyable as like being out in the countryside and like you know Like that basically the upper-class people were nervous To have these drunken mobs roaming the streets and still kind of like going after like upper-class people like for money or for handouts or whatever so So there was kind of this concentrated effort from the upper classes to find some other way to To shape Christmas tradition so it wouldn't be this crazy chaotic night and that's kind of when Santa Claus gets brought in and like the idea of like Christmas being at home and just like giving gifts to each other and just Like keeping it smaller and like contained kind of Came in I don't know. It was just interesting. It's just cool Yeah, I just think of Christmas as it's just always been this way, but that's not And you never hear that no that yeah, so that's that's pretty interesting to think about yeah Manifested totally and it's you know He brings in how like the major department stores now there's industrialization and people have disposable income You know Macy's and all these big department stores start like realizing they can capitalize on this and like get people to like get more Gifts and just how we're kind of have gotten into this crazy place where it's all about running around any holiday Movies are about running around and getting Christmas and you know, it's like frantic totally That's like the story that we tell ourselves about what it is and it just doesn't have to be that way So he just really advocates for slowing down You know basically trading money the things the time and the money that you would have spent on gifts and just trying to trade That for time like with your family and loved ones and just the simplicity of making gifts as opposed to buying them and that just If you're trying to spend time with your family around the holidays and like you just accomplished two things at once Because you made a gift for someone and you spent time with your family or whatever, you know It's not like radical, but it's just nice the way he frames it and like I said It's kind of gentle. Yeah, he's not like lambasting anyone and just saying like it takes time to transition Like if you want to do this like it's not just gonna happen in like one year It's gonna like take a few years to get other family on board and all that sort of stuff So I just thought it was nice good reminder. Yeah, maybe maybe that's a nice thing to remember for the whole year even yeah, like it seems like a symbolic of how we How we treat our everyday lives, you know It's always like you sort of transient transition into these different like seasons or It's like maybe we should just Well, I'm getting into my own views, but as long as it's not political. Yeah, I mean interesting to think about just Resting and and sort of looking in inward as opposed to always having to like rush around and do so many things Like let's just focus on Well, that's what I'd like to do. Yeah, maybe that's a good a good segment goal goal making Yeah, we could do that for the new year. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's great All right, we're gonna rush around a little bit here because we've got about two minutes at the end of our show So we're only about half a through our agenda. What's popping out to you here? What do you want you should do gift ideas? I don't know if we've gotten any callers from any moms or anyone 802-828-7430 I'm feeling pretty certain my mom's watching But that's okay. That's cool. All right Do you want to jump into gift ideas or ornament? Should we do ornaments? No, we could do ornaments. Yeah, let me bring that up here favorite ornaments Yeah, Sarah. This one's yours. Yeah, this one We actually picked this up at the antique store that used to be right on Main Street The three penny what the one? Yeah, the one that's now three penny and it's just a little like popcorn Sort of like an old-fashioned popcorn machine But I liked it because it kind of I love watching movies. It's like one of my favorite things. So yeah, I just sort of liked it for that reason and in a I'll just explain for the audience In a previous life when we worked together there was a popcorn machine very similar to this So it's sort of has a double connection there Yeah, nice Um, this is my favorite holiday ornament I actually just picked this up this year. This was from Bailey Road downtown and they have a great ornament selection Down there if anyone hasn't checked it out just really nice like big glass kind of ornaments. Some are super classic some are a little Off the beaten path such as this tiger head So I would definitely recommend checking out Bailey Road if you're looking for ornaments as for yourself or as gift for someone else I'm cognizant. We're at time here. It's 1230. So I guess that's the end of our show today. It's been a pleasure. Yeah, it was really nice I made a credit slide, but I didn't put it in here. So credit's real quick Sarah and I developed the show Zach Zorn was our director today Jin on was is the content manager and Christopher Christopher Viersma was the Programming or outreach coordinator and social media and this was produced here at Orca Media in Montpelier, Vermont No pets. No politics out with lunch. Thank you so much for tuning in and we will see you again Maybe next week. Yeah, we'll just check our schedules and get back to you Okay, thanks very much