Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, August 2, 202408/02/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 72
IT’S EP. #72, SO LET’S REVIEW, WITH SPECIAL GUEST, PRODUCER JESS TYLER
With a guest gap for this week’s show, Creator/Host, Lisa Reilly, thought it would be fun to introduce her Hustler Files Producer Jess Tyler and chat about their favorite shows, since launching The Hustler Files in February 2023. It’s because of Jess that The Hustler Files sounds so great each week! And it’s not a coincidence that it does! Jess has been in radio for as long as she can remember. She’s a long-time radio Jock, producer and program director. She’s a crime/drama junkie and so her passion for The Hustler Files platform and the guests that we have the privilege to chat with each week, is right in her wheelhouse! This was a fun episode to make, and we hope you enjoy something a bit different for this week’s show/podcast.
Thursday, August 1, 202408/01/2024
There’s a New Sheriff in Town
8/1/24: Rep Jim McGovern. Greenfield Acting Police Chief Todd Dodge on the changes in Greenfield policing. Tamar Fields & John Sears from Standing Together.
Wednesday, July 31, 202407/31/2024
It is Something in the Soil
7/31/24: Atty Rachel Weber: defending UMass protesters. UU Rev Janet Bush: offering sanctuary & retirement reflections. Brian Adams w/ Liz Willis-O’Gilvie, Dir, Springfield’s Gardening the Community: food justice. Dr. John Berger: “… Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.”
Tuesday, July 30, 202407/30/2024
UMass & Wars: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
7/30/24: Criminal defense atty Rachel Weber: the persecution and prosecution of UMass protesters. Hampshire prof & Nation Mag writer Michael Klare: endless wars & the nuclear threat. UMass prof Kara Peterman: $6.5 Million (!) to study carbon footprints. Poli-sci prof Beth Ginsberg: Latino, Black & Jewish voters this election.
Monday, July 29, 202407/29/2024
Dangers for Kids Ahead – Solutions, Too
7/29/24: UMass Computer Science prof Brian Levine: kids, computers and apps. Hilltown Youth Recovery Theater’s Jonathan Diamond & Sarah Close: “A Mid-Summers Night’s Dream.” Gfld Councilor Marianne Bullock: schools, police & money. Amherst’s new School Super Dr. Xi & Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: schools!
Saturday, July 27, 202407/27/2024
Panorama — Episode 82 — Professor Maurice Isserman, author of the book Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
In Panorama
Originally aired August 3, 2024. Dan Torres interviews Hamilton College professor Maurice Isserman about his recent publication Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism. They also discuss Professor Isserman’s cofounding the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the start of the Pioneer Valley DSA, and the recent changes to the national DSA board.
Friday, July 26, 202407/26/2024
The Beat Goes On
7/26/24: Rep Mindy Domb: Kamala excitement, MA gun safety & the Gender X law. Donnabelle Casis w/ Hannah Brookman from Looky Here & Charlotte Treiber from Madhouse Multiarts: the Greenfield Arts Walk tonight! Ernie Brill: “Journeys of Voices & Choices.” Adam Hinds, CEO of Edward M Kennedy Institute for U.S. Senate: this historic election.
Thursday, July 25, 202407/25/2024
Rights & Wrongs
ACLU MA Exec Dir, atty Carol Rose: civil liberties – rights (& wrongs) this November. Smith College Prof Andrew Zimbalist: the Olympics, Paris & Boston. Dan Crowley, Exec. Ed, Daily Hampshire Gazette & Gfld Recorder: we remember & honor our local moral compass, Randy Kehler, who passed Saturday. John Anz w/ jazz stars Matt & Atla DeChamplain – coming to the Summit House.
Thursday, July 25, 202407/25/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 71
THE SINS OF THE STEPFATHER
Will Soper was first arrested at the age of eleven, defending himself against the man who was his stepfather. This was not the first time Will had been sexually abused, but it was the first time he fought back and sadly his mother took his stepfather’s side. Despite the toxicity of the family, he was never given any mental health or other counseling and was continually sent back to his mother and stepfather when the foster care system failed him. Will’s abusive upbringing led to a justice involved life, culminating in the sexual assault of a person he knew. Now at 42, Will is finally out of prison and free of parole, but his time served and a personal apology to his victim cannot wipe away his sexual assault charge from his record. In Will’s own words, ‘…all I want to do is just work, even if it means washing dishes, I don’t care….I can’t go back to jail, I’d rather hold court in the street…’.
Wednesday, July 24, 202407/24/2024
Art at Risk, It’s for the Birds
7/24/24: Margaret Larson & Ellen Koteen: huge rent increases threaten 80 (!) Easthampton artists. Larry Hott: “Skywalkers: A Love Story” & other daredevil documentaries. Brian Adams w/ columnist Bill Danielson: “Speaking of Nature.” CDH’s Sue Pierce & Highland Valley’s Valerie D’Aquisto: discharging patients.
