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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.
Friday, July 11, 202507/11/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 119
A HUMAN COMPASS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR WAY
In Episode 117, Sheriff Brad Burkhart inspired us with his commitment to help those justice-impacted individuals under his watch return to their communities with a new lease on life. In this episode, we return to Hancock County, Indiana, to meet jail navigator Crystal Petty and former jail resident Danielle Brashear as they discuss the innovative programs implemented at the Hancock County Jail, from education and rehabilitation to reducing recidivism, AND saving Hancock County millions of dollars! Danielle also shares her powerful story of overcoming addiction, regaining her son, and finding her purpose. Her transparency highlights the importance of support systems and community involvement in fostering change, and Danielle is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the potential for redemption.
Friday, July 11, 202507/11/2025
Panorama — Episode 112 — Bob Flaherty on the No Kings Protest & AOC for President
In Panorama
Originally aired on July 12, 2025. Chance Encounters with Bob Flaherty. Well, Dan has a Chance Encounter with the Daily Hampshire Gazette (DHG) columnist Bob Flaherty in the WHMP studio. They discuss the meaning of the No Kings protest in Granby, MA (yes, Granby had protests). Bob answers why the Dems are so feckless in their response to the Trump administration (not a surprising answer–almost everything). And Bob ends the show with a ringing endorsement of AOC for president in 2028 (it seriously shocked Dan).
Friday, July 11, 202507/11/2025
Changes
7/11/25: We fishwrap Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChappelle’s leaving. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins—a retirement soiree. UMass econ prof Richard Wolff: Nazi Germany and Trump America’s parallels. Photographer Kevin Monaghan: his exhibit “Visual(s) & Lies.” Donnabelle Casis w/ printmaker Pascale Jarvis: “Transcendent Ink.”
