Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Monday, December 23, 201912/23/2019

Happy Kwanzaa!

In Bill Newman

12/23: Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Technology for Liberty Program, Kade Crockford, on Northampton’s passage of a face surveillance ban and the movement of which it is a part; a memorable “Black in the Valley” on Kwanzaa.

Saturday, December 21, 201912/21/2019

Western Mass Business Show 12.21.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Tune in Saturday, December 21 @ 11 am, and Sunday, December 22 @ 8 pm to hear Ira speak with JESS KERN, Neuromuscular Massage Therapist. They discuss her being the “muscle detective” who can find the source of pain, even when you’re feeling it elsewhere; how her combination of several bodywork tools and personal support, in a caring, judgement-free environment, has helped clientele, ranging from MIT medical staff to athletic training departments to beekeepers (she is one), has eased the pain of many.

Saturday, December 21, 201912/21/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 12.21.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Friday, December 20, 201912/20/2019

Remember That Government Is “We The People”

In Bill Newman

12/20: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa –we draw the curtain back on Beacon Hill; then ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Northampton Open Media’s Al Williams.

Thursday, December 19, 201912/19/2019

A Decade with The Reverend & The Rabbi

In Bill Newman

12/19: Paul Kitagaki, Jr, author and photojournalist of “Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated During World War II;” Jonathan Wright, founder of Wright Builders, on his new book “Living Building Makers: Creating Sustainable Buildings that Renew Our World;” the Reverend Peter Ives and the Rabbi Justin David –we celebrate Hanukkah and our memorable anniversary (champagne all around!)

Wednesday, December 18, 201912/18/2019

Outside: Rio Contrada’s Film About Homelessness

In Bill Newman

12/18: Filmmaker Rio Contrada and Service Net’s Josh Wren on homelessness here in the Valley; Gordon Edes, former and longtime Boston Globe and ESPN Boston Red Sox reporter, now the club’s historian and part of the club’s senior management team, on all things Sox.

Tuesday, December 17, 201912/17/2019

Rev & Rabbi & Comedy & Quiz & Holidays

In Bill Newman

12/17: NYT bestselling author Julie Salamon –her new book is “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer;” then, the (holiday) Comedy Quiz, a segment hosts mash-up, with the Reverend and the Rabbi and the Ha Has and Monte and Bill.

Monday, December 16, 201912/16/2019

Easthampton’s Banner Year

In Bill Newman

12/16: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle; then, the upcoming New Year’s Polar Plunge for the Palestinian House of Friendship.

Saturday, December 14, 201912/14/2019

Western Mass Business Show 12.14.19

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Tune in Saturday, December 14 @ 11 am, and Sunday, December 15 @ 8 pm to hear Ira speak with BROOKE SNYDER of Brooke Snyder Wellness. They discuss how Brooke’s background in sales and marketing led her to promote health and wellness through yoga and meditation, to manage the 50-70,000 “sentences in our mind,” 70-80% of them being negative. Her goal is to help people create more options, that are creative, and solution-focused; allowing them to create new by giving up old. Even her weightlifting regimen is to encourage herself and others to be empowered and uplifting. So listen in!

Saturday, December 14, 201912/14/2019

Vaya Con Muñoz 12.14.19

In Vaya Con Muñoz

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