Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, October 31, 202310/31/2023
Teach Your Children? Well,
10/31/23: Larry Hott & Andrew Leland on ”The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.” Claudia Lefko on her Ward 3 (N’hmpt) write-in candidacy. Professors Trevor Kearns & Joe Nardoni on our underfunded community colleges. Peter Whalen on insurance in a time of climate change.
Monday, October 30, 202310/30/2023
Two Unconstitutional
10/30/23: Innovation Institute’s Pat Larkin & Sharron Wall on $5M UMass grant. Prof. Michael Klare on the Hamas-Israel War. Atty Tom Lesser on the unconstitutional federal marijuana law & Greenfield’s unconstitutional equity theft. UMass student Ava Hawkes on the protests & arrests. Writers Block with Megan Zinn & Suzanne Michelle Smith.
Friday, October 27, 202310/27/2023
Rights! and Rights?
10/27/23: Rep. Mindy Domb on Hamas, Israel & Amherst. Teachers’ union leaders Max Page & Deb Gesualdo on strikes. Donnabelle Casis and Mollye Maxner on “A Stone’s Throw.” Scott Coen on the World Series. Rev. Carole Bull on faith in hard times. Amherst’s Paul Bockelman and Cat Newman on CRESS, police & dispatch.
Thursday, October 26, 202310/26/2023
Josh Silver Hosts Talk the Talk
10/26/2023: ACLUM’s Carol Rose on money in politics & digital privacy; Northampton School Committee member Aline Davis & candidate Endamian Stewart; Brian Adams with John Berryhill, Smith College Botanical Gardens; All That Jazz with Ruth Griggs & Green Street Trio’s Paul Arslanian.
Wednesday, October 25, 202310/25/2023
Western Massachusetts Business Show on 10.21.23 — Team Members Alison Berman and Molly Hoyt
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we take a deeper look into a well-known national organization with a local chapter. GOTR Team Members Alison Berman (Council Director) and Molly Hoyt (Program Director) join us to talk about how GOTR is not just a running program but one that incorporates positive self-expression, goal-oriented thinking, and team building into their 2 programs: GOTR (3rd-5th grades) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grades). For more information go to www.girlsontherunwesternma.org and be sure to set the date of 11/19/23 @ 11AM in your calendars to attend their famous end of season 5K at WNEU in Springfield.
Wednesday, October 25, 202310/25/2023
Your Lying Eyes
10/25/23: Leslea Newman on “Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard.” Poets Rich Michelson, Rabbi Ben Weiner & Jena Schwartz. Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman. Valley Light Opera’s Thom Griffin & Kathy Blaisdell on Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Iolanthe.” Performance Project’s Julie Lichtenberg & Moise Jackobo on “Mother Tongue” – one night only! MHC psychology prof Mara Breen on your lying eyes—and ears.
Tuesday, October 24, 202310/24/2023
On Thin Ice
10/24/23: Larry Hott on “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey.” The Lyme Disease Resource Center’s Nellie Wilson & Maria Malaguti on keeping yourself safe. Sci-Tech Café on ocean ice disappearing, with professors Alice Bradley & Kerstin Nordstrom. Fair Play on fair pay in sports with Duke Goldman. Friends of Hampshire County Homeless Individuals Director Krystal Randall and volunteer Brit Albritton on the unhoused here.
Monday, October 23, 202310/23/2023
As We Remember Dee
10/23/23: G’fld Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on the impending election. On Black in the Valley, we mourn the passing and celebrate the life of Demetria (Dee) Shabazz with Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Carlie Tartakov and Amilcar Shabazz. The Lava Center’s Matthew Barlow on “Geological Research for Marginalized Communities,” and Megan Zinn with— coming to the Odyssey — Kim Coleman Foot on “Coleman Hill.”
Friday, October 20, 202310/20/2023
Guns and Roses. Swimming the entire Connecticut. Talking with Stryker.
10/20/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on yesterday’s gun bill; MTA’s; Max Page with Hildreth Institute’s Dr. Bahar Akman Indoden & Hiba Agha on higher ed. falling enrollments; Donnabelle Casis & Amanda Morgan on the Art Salon; Kari Kastango on swimming the Connecticut Rivers’s 410 miles; superstar journalist Stryker Maguire on the present & future of his profession.
Thursday, October 19, 202310/19/2023
War and a Piece
10/19/23: DHG & Recorder editor Dan Crowley on p.1 stories, e.g., Northampton’s Main St Redesign. Rev. Michael McSherry on biblical teachings about war. Brian Adams with Northampton Climate Director Carole Collins. Ruth Griggs with musicians’ Guy Friday, Jack Frisch.