Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, July 22, 202507/22/2025
Seeing Ourselves
7/22/25: Pol consultant Josh Silver: the 2026 midterms & Northampton politics. Local artists & musicians Inde & Hazel Basil: “Mirror Mirror” at APE Gallery. Andrea Monson, Ex Dir, Downtown Nhmtn Ass’n: this weekend’s Sidewalk Sale.
Monday, July 21, 202507/21/2025
Trump’s War on Big Bird
7/21/25: NEPM Pres Matt Abramovitz on devastating cuts to public radio & television. Megan Zinn w/ UMass English Prof Jenny Adams: reading, writing & thinking. Ehmptn Interim Mayor Salem Derby: 4 days on the job. Immigration Atty Stacy Tolchin: ICE’s roving raids on immigrants.
Saturday, July 19, 202507/19/2025
Panorama — Episode 113 — Alex Leff on the French Revolution
In Panorama
Originally aired on July 19th, 2025. Alex Leff, local documentary filmmaker and podcaster discusses his Human Nature Odyssey podcast and the King is Dead, Now What? series. 236 years ago, the French people dethroned their absolute king, Louis XVI. What led up to that revolution? And, what happened the day after? Alex Leff also explains the importance of the French Revolution to our current political predicament.
Podcast Episode Premiere, Guided Discussion, and Potluck Gathering Potluck: bring a dish or $10
Hidden Temple
(221 Pine St Suite #20, Florence, MA 01062, Florence MA)
Episode premiere: sliding scale $15-30 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
6pm – Doors open and potluck begins
6:55pm – Doors close (please arrive before then)
7pm – Episode premiere
8pm – Group discussion
9pm – Gathering ends
Friday, July 18, 202507/18/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 120
THE MANY LIVES OF LARA LOVE HARDIN
Lara Love Hardin is a NY Times best-selling author, including a 2024 Oprah Book Club pick, a 5-time NY Times bestselling collaborative author, a literary agent, a Mother, and a prison reform advocate. She’s also a former addict and justice-involved individual. Lara’s memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing, is the transformational story of her life, her experiences with the criminal justice system, and the stigma surrounding addiction. While her story contains notes of “Wild”, “Orange is the New Black”, and “Catch Me If You Can”, it is the power of storytelling that offered her a means of healing and forgiveness, because as she says, “I want to do what’s true to me”.
Friday, July 18, 202507/18/2025
You Can’t Trump This
7/18/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Trump killing DOE. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: the new Mass Shield Law. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove & an Epstein coverup? Silverthorne Theater Pres Ezekiel Baskin, Dir Cordelia Winter Dwyer & actors Donovan Stanfield & Sandra Blaney: “Comeuppance.”
Thursday, July 17, 202507/17/2025
Wings and Roots
7/17/25: Smith Prof James Lowenthal: space travel & NASA cuts. Rabbi David Seidenberg: Tisha B’Av, immigrants, ICE & Israel. Local newspapers’ Ex Ed Dan Crowley: Amherst Guidance Counselor, fired over ant-trans behavior, reinstated. Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/ Dr. Lucinda Canty of Mom-&-baby-focused Lucinda’s House & Anika Lopes on Ancestral Bridges.
Wednesday, July 16, 202507/16/2025
Be Cool!
7/16/25: Bill Bowers: “Between Us” mime show at Chester Theatre w/ artistic directors Christopher Baker & Michelle Ong-Hendrick. Cooley Dick’s Dr. Sunny Shukla’s tips for staying out of the ER. Brian Adams w/ Pres Joe Curatone of Alliance for Climate Transition. Bob Cilman w/ Norma Jean Haynes on banjo, Will Amend on percussion, w/ Young@Heart Chorus 7/22 at Look Park.
Tuesday, July 15, 202507/15/2025
Our Strength — Together
7/15/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: Trump & Scotus attack education, environs, and farms. Ehamp renters’ rally tomorrow: Atty Joel Feldman w/ tenant organizer Kate Zanetta of Pleasant View–HOUSING RALLY. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Holly Ruderman & Laura Patrick–BLUEBERRY. Prof. Carrie Baker w/ UMass Econ Prof Emeritus Lee Badgett, head of Koppa on the global effort to defend LGBTI+ lives & rights!
Monday, July 14, 202507/14/2025
Stand up! Fight Back!
7/14/25: Dr. Angel Foster & Dr. D: the Mass Medication Abortion Access Project. Megan Zinn w/ Kate Russo, author of “Until Alison,” coming to the Odyssey. Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: local school control & federal $miilions withheld. Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChapelle, the new state Commr of Conservation & Recreation.
Friday, July 11, 202507/11/2025
Western Mass Business Show on 7.12.25 — Beth Spong, CEO of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Beth Spong is a multi-faceted Wonder Woman. From being with many nonprofits in various leadership roles, to being a consultant, to a Principle at Rainmaker, she has the capacity to move mountains. Tune into learn how being at the right place at the right time matters and how intentional leadership can change the course of a company, workforce, and industry. Thank you to Dean Cycon for your thoughtfulness in the coffee industry globally and how you have impacted the economy locally in Orange, MA and beyond. Deans Beans is a worker owned cooperative, fair trade, organic, bird friendly, and a B-Corp. find out why you need to be drinking Deans Beans coffee if you aren’t already. Check them out locally and at www.deansbeans.com. Thank you, listeners.
