Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, June 3, 202506/03/2025
Western Mass Business Show on 5.31.25 — Cancer Connection’s Grateful Bed Tour
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we chat with Cancer Connection Executive Director Chelsea Kline and Board of Directors Co-President Jean Einstein (we missed you, Sue Lowry) about the programs and opportunities to support Cancer Connection coming up soon. In their 25th year of “Befriending” and providing FREE services to cancer patients and their loved ones-it’s a major milestone and reason to celebrate. After just wrapping a very successful Mother’s Day Half Marathon (thanks Sue Monahan) and looking forward to the Grateful Bed Tour (thanks to Greenfield Savings Bank for the 15,000 Community Challenge Grant) and Bikes Fight Cancer Charity Ride, there is no moss on this nonprofit. Join us as we discuss the thrift store, nutrition programs, wigs, raffles, and why you should join as a part of the Cancer Connection family. Follow along at www.cancer-connection.org. Thanks for listening.
Monday, June 2, 202506/02/2025
Resistance and Resilience
6/2/2025: Nick Mottern & Ruth Moushabeck: Saturday’s Concert for the Children of Gaza. Megan Zinn w/ Richard Russo: “Life and Art.” Sen Jo Comerford: fighting back against SNAP & Medicaid cuts. Nhmptn Mayor GL Sciarra: school funding & federal cuts & uplifting graduations.
Friday, May 30, 202505/30/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 114
WORKING TO KEEP HIS COUNTY, THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE
Upon driving into the State of Maine there is a sign that reads, ‘WELCOME TO MAINE, THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE’. For thirty-eight years, Kevin Joyce, the current Sheriff of Cumberland County, Maine, has made it his mission to ensure that his county, which includes the city of Portland, Maine, lives up to its state motto. While the State of Maine, in general, is considered rural, Cumberland County is a blend of cities, towns, and the second-largest and deepest lake in the state. This combination offers its own unique challenges and responsibilities for Sheriff Joyce and his law enforcement team. From the intricacies of managing a large jail population, to the impact of mental health and substance use on the Maine justice system, and the importance of community engagement, Sheriff Joyce is still as passionate about his mission and the people under his watch, both outside and behind the wall, as he was thirty-eight years ago.
Friday, May 30, 202505/30/2025
Life and Lives
5/30/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Massachusetts legislation to save K-12 and higher ed. Hon. Mary Lou Rup & Ruth Griggs: celebrating Leah Kunkel’s life, her music and advocacy. Elizabeth Minnich: “The Evil of Banality….” on Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Trump and ourselves
Thursday, May 29, 202505/29/2025
30+Years Fights for Justice
5/29/25 Jenny Fleming Ives: her 33 yrs as a reproductive health specialist at Tapestry Health — also CEO Mavis Nimoh on budget cuts. Gnfld City Counsel Pres Lora Wondoloski: funding the schools. Ct River Conservancy’s Kathy Urffer & Nina Gordon-Kirsch: the ongoing fight over a 30-50 yr license renewals for energy projects on the river. John Anz w/ multi-genre, multi-instrumentalist Susan Werner—at the Parlor Room.
Wednesday, May 28, 202505/28/2025
Strokes of Genius
5/28/25: Larry Hott reviews “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise” & “What Happened, Miss Simone?” CDH Chief of Emerg Medicine Dr. Alberto Perez & EMS Stroke Coordinator Ben Hogan: stroke awareness. Brian Adams w/ Politico correspondent Brian Dabbs: Trump v renewable energy. Musicians Johnny Joelson, Ginny Elkin & Dan Zukergood performing LIVE in studio & at the Iron Horse June 1.
Tuesday, May 27, 202505/27/2025
Flashes of Hot and Cold
5/27/25: Political consultant Josh Silver: Trump’s poll numbers going up. Cancer Connection Ex Dir Chelsea Kline: the Grateful Bed Tour. Sci-Tech Café Dir & MHC Prof Kerstin Nordstrom w/ UMass anthropologist Lynnette Leidy Sievert: menopausal hot flashes. Duke Goldman: the role of character in sports & Hall of Fame voting.
Saturday, May 24, 202505/24/2025
Western Mass Business Show on 5.24.25 — Just Roots
Join us as we chat with Joshua Faller who has a lifelong passion for farming and land. Knowing that food justice is racial justice and that we all deserve to eat healthy nourishing food we embark on a conversation into how Just Roots is showing up for the Greenfield community, Franklin County, the state, and the country. Since 2011, Just Roots has been working the town owned land for the benefit of others. Through CSA’s, food as medicine, seedling sales, events, and partnerships Just Roots is working to change the model of how food is delivered to those that need it. Faller is the Co-Director with Merrill LaTronica and they are working hard to innovate a broken system that needs more hands to help.
Thank you, Just Roots.
www.justroots.org
Friday, May 23, 202505/23/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 113
WHEN GOD CALLS YOUR NAME
In another milestone episode, retired prison Chaplain Peg Newman shares an insightful and heartfelt look inside her life journey at the intersection of faith, spirituality, and the criminal justice system. From her early work with AIDS patients to providing spiritual guidance to incarcerated individuals with life sentences or facing death and dying, her stories offer profound reflections from a compassionate vantage point. Peg highlights the importance of community, connection, and the human spirit despite the most challenging of circumstances, and the gifts that she unexpectedly received when placing her faith in front of her fear.
Friday, May 23, 202505/23/2025
Cosmic Thoughts & Labors of Love
5/23/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ labor expert Eric Blanc: “We are the Union…” today’s rank & file leadership. Rep Mindy Domb: the fabulous, the horrible and the future. You can see the cosmos this weekend! with Arunah Hill’s Ed Faits. Adam Hinds on Trump’s bill in the US Senate. Donnabelle Casis w/ Spfld Museum ‘s Elizabeth Kapp: “Witch Panic! Massachusetts before Salem.”
