Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, September 8, 201709/08/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 9.9.17
Having biases is a human condition. UMass Deputy Police Chief Ian Cyr trains police officers to recognize their own biases and make decisions that are not based on those pre-conceived notions.
Politicaly motivated heinous crimes against humanity were the daily bread in Guatemala not so long ago. In 1982, soldiers raped and murdered more than 200 people from a small village. Director Ryan Suffern goes on an investigative journey to uncover the massacre and the key is in “Finding Oscar.” Award winning filmmaker Larry Hott reviews the documentary. Trailer here:www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/movies/finding-oscar-review.html?referrer=google_kp
Notes on Hurricane Irma and how the Puerto Rico govenor is making a bigger deal of it than in was on the island in order to secure more federal aid. Rant on people who criticize Hillary for writing a book. OMG.
We end with the soundtrack from the 1964 movie “Zorba The Greek,” for my uncle Minás, another positive Greek like the one portrayed by in the movie by the Mexican Anthony Quinn. He predicted correctly that Hurricane Irma wasn’t going to be as destructive in Puerto Rico as it was elsewhere. Music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Image of “Finding Oscar.”
Friday, September 8, 201709/08/2017
China, Japan and Nuclear War
In Bill Newman
9/8: Richard McGregor, author of “Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of the U.S. Power in the Pacific Century;” Penny Burke, Executive Director of the Northampton Center for the Arts, on moving to a new home and chalking the sidewalks.
Thursday, September 7, 201709/07/2017
Perspectives From Inside Vietnam
In Bill Newman
9/7: Lady Borton, Vietnam peace activist, and Don Chevannes, Vietnam vet, panelists at upcoming showing of “The Vietnam War,” share their perspectives.
Wednesday, September 6, 201709/06/2017
When The War Comes Home
In Bill Newman
9/6: Marie Waechter, from public television for western New England — WGBY, previews Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” at the Academy of Music; and Jessie Jimison, a panelist following the film, discusses her father’s Vietnam war-induced PTSD. Then Heidi Nortonsmith, Executive Director of the Northampton Survival Center, Mary Hamel, co-owner of Glendale Ridge Vineyard, and Sheila Coon, founder of Hot Oven Cookies, preview the upcoming confab at the Vineyard.
Wednesday, September 6, 201709/06/2017
Western Mass Business Show 9.2.17
In The Western Mass. Business Show
9.2.17 George O’Brien talks with Alex Dixon the new GM from MGM Springfield
Tuesday, September 5, 201709/05/2017
UMass Football Loses Again
In Bill Newman
9/5: Max Page on two big punts: the UMass. football program and Commonwealth Commitment-so called—to making higher ed. affordable; Hampshire College President and astronomer Salman Hameed on the eclipse, the Voyager, and new climate-change denier head of NASA; Ricky Greenwald, founder and director of Northampton based Trauma Institute.
Friday, September 1, 201709/01/2017
A Constitutional Lesson On Impeachment
In Bill Newman
MHC professor of government Christopher Pyle explores presidential pardons, impeachment, and removal.
Friday, September 1, 201709/01/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 9.2.17
Florence resident and award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on the free speech issues raised by the documentary “Nobody Speaks,” about the Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit against Gawker.com, which resulted in the website closing down.
La crítica de cine Ariadna Goenaga nos reseña “Dunkirk” por el director Christopher Nolan. Corto aquí: youtube.com/watch?v=F-eMt3SrfFU
Matt Szafranski, founder and editor of Western Mass Politics and Insight (wmasspi.com) on the Springfield Police Department response to an officer’s crude posting in the aftermth of the Charlottesville protests in which a young woman was killed by the white supremacist. Also, the answer to the question: Where is Congressman Richie Neal?
La Lupe from Cuba sings us out with “No me quieras tanto.”
Image of director Christopher Nolan on the set of “Dunkirk.”
Thursday, August 31, 201708/31/2017
The Lord Spoke
In Bill Newman
8/31: Three reverends and a rabbi walk into a radio statio (ok, one reverend by phone) and decide to bless bicycles, and one revered says to another—you’ll want to hear what—with Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Laura Everett, and Rev. Sarah Buteux. Also, a second wave of the Northampton Renaissance? Goggins Real Estate CEO Pat Goggins tells us how and why.
Wednesday, August 30, 201708/30/2017
Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra Moves Into Their New Home
In Bill Newman
8/30: Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra founder and director Peter Blanchette returns to our studio. (We only want to do once in our lives something as stupendous as Peter playng his archguitar.)
