Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, March 4, 202503/04/2025
Politics, Poetry, Pucci & Players
3/4/25: Sen. Paul Mark: federal cuts & the future of West-East Rail. Rich Michelson w/ UMass prof, translator & poet John Hennessy: poetry from Ukraine & “Exit Garden State.” Atty John Pucci: DOJ’s new mission: vengeance & retribution. Paul Newlin: “Watermelon Wednesdays” w/ violinist Tim Kliphuis (Django Jazz) & Petri Prauda of the Finnish band Frigg.
Tuesday, March 4, 202503/04/2025
Panorama — Episode 101 — Visions Video
In Panorama
Originally aired on March 1, 2025. Jesse Hassinger and Bill Dwight of Visions Video answer the hard questions — Are they really opening a video rental store in Northampton? Why? How will it work? How will this store be different than other rental locations? And what should Northamptonites expect?
Monday, March 3, 202503/03/2025
A Free Press?
3/3/25: Free Press Pres Craig Aaron: rampant fed govt censorship. Megan Zinn w/ Odyssey’s Robin Glossner: new books to love & authors to meet. Sen. Jo Comerford: federal cuts threatening MA & new legislature transparency rules. Nhmptn Mayor GL Sciarra: the $600,000 request for schools, snow & ice & potholes.
Friday, February 28, 202502/28/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 101
THIS CALL IS BEING RECORDED, SAN QUENTIN PART 2
Every incarcerated person knows the exact date and time of their parole hearing, even if it’s years in the future. For Chan Park, his first parole hearing took place after 13 years, 8 months of incarceration. His rejection by the Parole Board because he hadn’t served enough time. That was the first of what would be three more parole hearings over the next 20 years, four in total. All ended in rejection. One can only wonder how Chan kept his hopes alive. Despite his well-laid out parole plans, his exemplary prison record, his many certifications in a variety of vocational trainings, nothing would circumvent the three-hour interrogations by the Parole Board and their decisions administered in only 30 minutes. Chan would not be released. Yet, Chan stays hopeful. He continues to tweak his parole plan and contribute to the progressiveness of San Quentin, sitting on one of the newly formed, internal Advisory Councils created by Governor Newsom. At the end of the day, no matter what, he says, ‘when you’ve served 3 or 4 or 5 decades, sometimes the only person you have left to talk to is God, and that goes a long way’. Chan is scheduled for his next parole hearing in May 2026. He is hopeful he can reschedule it to sometime this year, in 2025.
Friday, February 28, 202502/28/2025
Have Hope, Have Heart
2/28/25: Rep. Mindy Domb—now Chair of Mental Health, Substance use & Recovery. MTA Pres Max Page on Sen. Markey’s bill to preserve ed funding. Filmmakers Larry Hott & Julia Mintz on her film “Four Winters” — surviving and fighting Nazis. Hope for peace in Palestine & Israel with Roots Co-founders Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger & Khaled Abu Awwad. Dr. Kemar Brown, cardiologist & Am Heart Ass’n volunteer: heart transplants and saving yr loved ones with CPR.
Thursday, February 27, 202502/27/2025
A Really Big Show
2/27/25: ACLUM Ex Dir Carol Rose: the threat to sanctuary cities and town. Rev Carole Bull: a personal relationship with the Higher Power. Jessi Kirley, Pres of Ehmtn-based J Kirley Collective & Common Capital Pres Raymond Lanza-Weil: small loans, big dreams & his testimony at US Senate yesterday. All That Jazz w/ John Anz, Mark Gionfriddo & Brian Lapis—olde time radio show.
Wednesday, February 26, 202502/26/2025
Heat & Soul
2/26/25: John Pucci: Trump’s corruption of the DoJ. Indivisible mbr Bill Feinstein: Friday’s 24-hour economic blackout. Larry Hott on “Porcelain War” & “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” Chris Appy & Brian Adams w/ Sunrise Movement Co-Fndr Varshini Praskash. Natl Heart Month w/ CDH Cardiologist Jim Arcoleo & Interventional Radiologist Greg Blackman.
Tuesday, February 25, 202502/25/2025
Music to Our Ears
2/25/25: Scott Coen: the 2025 Red Sox are for real. Steve Sanderson & Megan Tady: remembering Roberta Flack. Scitech Cafe w/ Professors Kerstin Nordstrom & Shivon Robinson: your brain on drugs. Luke Ryan & Bill Tuman: River Valley Taekwondo. Patrick Gabridge (Plays in Place): “Blood on the Snow.”
Monday, February 24, 202502/24/2025
Western Mass Business Show on 2.22.25 — Orice Jenkins, Executive Director of Musica Franklin in Greenfield
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Orice Jenkins is a man of many talents and not one to brag. He is the Executive Director of Musica Franklin in Greenfield, a program teaching kids about music and beyond for FREE. The ways that the staff teach playing instruments and working together is the effort of many years of hard work and he is not alone in MF’s success. Gloria Matlock is also a teacher there, along with others, who has been on the show with some of the same kids who are part of both Musica and Twice As Smart. These kids are some of the best ones that I know, and it is a testament to the programs and these amazing adult humans that are involved. Additionally, Orice is an accomplished musician in his own right and has toured the country with some of the greatest artists in the world. He is also an author of The Early County Massacre: The Goolsby vs. The State of Georgia which has ties to his family history. To add to this great work, he is also a genealogy researcher and educator, he is humble and worth spending time with. For more information about Musica Franklin and Orice Jenkins please go to:
www.musicafranklin.org
www.oricejenkins.com
Monday, February 24, 202502/24/2025
The Fire This Time
2/24/25: Duke Goldman: Trump’s discrimination against women and trans athletes.
Prof Amilcar Shabazz: reparations in Amherst & Northampton. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: a house fire & frozen hydrants, CRESS, DEI & Trump threats. Megan Zinn & Developmental Editor Pat Dobie: making your good book great—and publishable.
