Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, December 1, 201712/01/2017

Tickling Giants

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11.30.17 A discussion of the seemingly never ending list of powerful men who have done horrible things to women. A review of the film “Tickling Giants” by Flollywood’s Larry Hott. Talking birds with Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple. And congratulating our Rabbi, Justin David on his humanitarian award.

Wednesday, November 29, 201711/29/2017

A Penguin To Help You With Holiday Shopping

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Tuesday, November 28, 201711/28/2017

Will Massachusetts Put Higher Ed on Higher Ground?

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11.28 Max Paige guest hosts with State Senate President Stan Rosenberg and another installment of the Comedy Quiz on body language.

Monday, November 27, 201711/27/2017

Is There Finally A Cultural Shift Going On?

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11.27.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks Trump, Northampton’s inclusivity problems and the paradigm shift.

Tuesday, November 21, 201711/21/2017

Western Mass Business Show 11.25.17

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Ira speaks w Lennie Applequist from Cider House Media about how his LA movie industry background helps him tell people’s stories online

Saturday, November 18, 201711/18/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 11.18.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez want Puerto Rico’s $74 billion to be forgiven because between that and Hurricane María, how in the world will Puerto Rico rebuild? Good point. But who will pay for the debt then?
The lights are either still out or go on and off and so that 1970s mega hit, “El Fuá (La Luz)” by Alfonso Vélez, comes to mind. We hear a bit of that song.
Larry Hott brings Roger Sorkin, another Florence-based filmmaker and founder of American Resilience (AmRes.org), a non-profit documentary film production company that produces films on the enviroment to bring together people of disparate views in order to help enact polcy changes that benefit all of us. Trailer of Sorkin’s fim, “Tidewater,” here: amresproject.org/tidewater-film
Part 1 of my conversation with Betty Medina Lichtenstein, executive director of the Holyoke-based Enlance de Familias, one of the organizations that is helping Puerto Ricans coming to the region because of the catastrophic effects of Hurricane María.
En nuestro segmento de De Todo Un Poco, Lillian Torres y yo hablamos sobre el hostigamiento sexual y cómo sería un día si los hombres se quedaran en su casas.
We are sung out by Estéro Bomba, “Soy Yo.”
Image from “Tideawater” used with permission.

Saturday, November 18, 201711/18/2017

Western Mass Business Show 11.18.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Eric Nusbaum of Wheelwright Consulting, an expert on planning and fixing your restaurant

Friday, November 17, 201711/17/2017

Poems & Memoirs

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11/17: Jennifer Levi, the lawyer who just won the case challenging Trump’s transgender military ban; “NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson and poet and memoirist Richard Hoffman; Alison Morse, Director of Circles for Jewish Living, with Eveline MacDougall of Amandla Chorus fame –live in our studio!– give us a taste of this weekend’s story and musical confab.

Thursday, November 16, 201711/16/2017

Young@Heart Mash-Up V!

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11/16: The Young@Heart Chorus in our studio –an amazing preview of this weekend’s musical mash-up; Tom Countryman, 35 year diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State under John Kerry for International Security and Non-Proliferation, on North Korea and threat of nuclear war; the Revered and the Rabbi on Sunday’s interfaith celebration of the new Hampshire Mosque.

Thursday, November 16, 201711/16/2017

Tidewater

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11/15: Cool films with Larry Hott and filmmaker Roger Sorkin creator of “Tidewater”—on how rising sea levels threaten the United States.

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