Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Monday, February 8, 202102/08/2021

Patience is a virtue when it comes to the vaccine

In Bill Newman

2/4: Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US. Then, The Reverend, Peter Ives, and the Rabbi, Justin David, on the ethics of where you are in the line to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

Monday, February 8, 202102/08/2021

The Other Superb Sunday Event

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2/3: The Northamptones! A sneak preview of this Sunday’s Silver Chord Bowl and their new album.

Monday, February 8, 202102/08/2021

Smashing the Oligarchy

In Bill Newman

2/2: Thom Hartmann, the country’s pre-eminent progressive radio talk show host, whose new book is “The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class.” Then, Attorney John Pucci on Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial.

Monday, February 8, 202102/08/2021

Vaccsoon?

In Bill Newman

2/1: Senator Jo Comerford on Covid-19, the vaccine rollout and its availability here in Western Massachusetts.

Saturday, February 6, 202102/06/2021

Western Mass Business Show 2.6.21

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Saturday, January 30, 202101/30/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 1.30.21

In Vaya Con Muñoz

This week our panelists – Nathaniel Waring, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, and Matt Szafranski – talk about the ongoing legal battle between Mayor Sarno and the Springfield City council around the council’s decision to switch from a police commissioner to a 5 person civilian police commission; the Massachusetts Republican party’s attempts to censure governor baker over his support of the second impeachment of former president Trump, and how it’s a symptom of a greater movement within the republican party towards extremism; how the political spectrum is more complicated than simply left and right, and how the real nature of our political and economic systems relate to the words we use for them, and how important words can be to a common understanding; and discuss what’s happening with reddit and the stock market, and how everyday investors banded together to take down a hedge fund, and shine a light on the problems that have always existed within our stock market.

Friday, January 29, 202101/29/2021

Are The Rich Getting A Little Closer To Being Eaten?

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U.S. Billionaires Gain $1.2 TRILLION since March !! with Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies; Governor Baker’s vaccine rollout and his budget
with MTA Vice-President Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Cassis and artist Larry Slezak– his show is the Anchor House Gallery in Northampton.

Thursday, January 28, 202101/28/2021

The Shadow History of Adoption

In Bill Newman

1/28: Gabrielle Glaser, author of “American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption;” Sue Reynolds, new Chair of Amherst Writers and Artists; Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives on new beginnings.

Wednesday, January 27, 202101/27/2021

Is Trump An Asset?

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1/27: Craig Unger, author of “American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery.” Then, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman, and panelists Natalia Munoz, Monte and Bill.

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