Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, June 12, 202606/12/2026
The Hustler Files Ep 166
AT COFFEE CREEK, NO WOMAN WALKS ALONE
At Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon, there’s a simple belief: no woman should walk alone. This week we’re speaking with prison scholar, educator, researcher, advocate and Safe Ride creator, Dr. Taryn VanderPyl. For more than a decade, Taryn has worked alongside incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, listening to their experiences and helping amplify voices too often left out of conversations about justice and rehabilitation. The discussion explores the surprising role of prison Lifers Clubs, the power of peer accountability, and the creation of the Transformative Justice Community (TJC). Taryn shares how a group of incarcerated women helped design CREW, an innovative reentry initiative focused on trauma recovery, safe transportation, housing support, and protecting vulnerable women from exploitation and trafficking upon release. The conversation also examines post-incarceration syndrome, the emotional realities of reentry, the importance of community, and why those with lived experience are often best equipped to guide others through the journey home. This episode is a powerful look at healing, accountability, second chances, and the women working to ensure that no one leaves prison alone.
Friday, June 12, 202606/12/2026
Performers & Politicians
6/12/26 (Host – Josh Silver)
MTA President Max Page w/ Congressional Candidate Mariah Lancaster: running for an open seat for the 6th Congressional District, Primary in September
Director Rose Schwietz Malla, Assistant Director Hia Ghosh, Actor Caleb Koval: Silverthorne Theater Company’s Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok, Performances now through June 21 at Hampshire College Theater (Emily Dickinson Hall).
Director Jen Polins: The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought presents Hatchery Dance Company’s Asteroid B-612: A Love Story inspired by The Little Prince at The Workroom Theater in Northampton. June 12 (sold out) & June 13 2 & 730 pm
Josh Silver: Easthampton Override & Easthampton’s World Cup Watch Parties
MTA President Max Page & Senator Ed Markey: Public Education, The Big Ugly Bill & Markey facing Seth Moulton for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the September 1 primary.
Thursday, June 11, 202606/11/2026
Live!
6/11/26 (Host – Bill Newman)
Amherst-Pelham School Superintendent Xiomara Herman: the accomplishments this year, the challenges and finances of the next.
Live in the studio — Django in June in Northampton: Musicians Sam Farthing, Giacomo Smith & Sami Arefin — their music is amazing — and Andrew Lawrence, founder and director.
Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: war & peace, scripture & poetry.
Ruth Griggs, Pres, Northampton Jazz Festival, on Eugene Uman’s Convergence Project @ the Vermont Jazz Center.
Wednesday, June 10, 202606/10/2026
In Style
6/10/26: Host Brian Adams
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer: Budget, Overrides, Potholes & what to do with Hampshire College
Cassandra Holden Founder & Executive Director of Bombyx in Florence: Arts, Equity, & Eclectic performances
Jenny Green, Authenticity Chair of the Green Valley Homestead: dressing for the revolution, celebrating the 250th anniversary in style
Cool Films w/ Larry Hott & Leslie Askew: In Search of Phyllis Wheatley, enslaved Genius Poet of the 18th century
Tuesday, June 9, 202606/09/2026
The Presence of the Past
6/9/26: Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz
Rep. Pat Duffy remembers Barney Frank, the first out gay Congressman, who recently passed. She attended the celebration of his life yesterday.
UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz on Juneteenth in Northampton.
Third Graders at Hadley Elementary on their lobbying efforts to make asparagus the official state vegetable—meeting the governor, their state senator and rep. Civic engagement at its best!
Pat Ononibaku, Pres of Black Business Assoc of Amherst: the upcoming 19th annual Juneteenth Jubilee & Black businesses in the Valley.
The IL (Injury List) grows. It includes baseball itself. Why don’t the owners care? We ask Duke Goldman, who also explains the masking tape over the NYY insignia on the Aaron Judge tee that Newman gave him.
Monday, June 8, 202606/08/2026
This Show Is Intense
6/8/26 (Co-Host — Megan Rubiner Zinn)
Author Danielle Crittenden on “Dispatches from Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable” – the death of a child.
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor — Smith History Professor, Richard Pryor’s daughter and author of “Something We Said: Richard Pryor, A Notorious Word, and Me.”
The Easthampton Override — the stakes are huge — with teacher Kelley Brown, police lieutenant Andrew Beaulieu and firefighter and EMT Cody Potasky.
Yale Professor of Law and History Samuel Moyn on “Gerontocracy in America: How thew Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth and What to Do About it.”
Saturday, June 6, 202606/06/2026
Western Mass Business Show on 6.6.26 – Mary Yun
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we speak with Mary Yun who is the Executive Director of Click Workspace at 9 1/2 market Street in downtown Northampton. Click is celebrating 10 years on Market Street. Tune in as we talk about what it means to cowork in pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post pandemic life. How do we work? Why Click? Why coworking space? Why Northampton? How did Click come to be? Mary has a background as an architect and designer. Bringing this eye for quality of spatial relationships to light, materials, and color for over 28 years Click Workspace has benefited from her eye for detail. Click as a coworking space, gallery space, and community event space has been a very successful concept. They will be celebrating their 10 years on June 12th from 6 to 8 PM with an large scale event at 9 1/2 Market Street. To find out more please go to www.clickworkspace.org or www.maryyunstudio.com.
Friday, June 5, 202606/05/2026
The Hustler Files Ep 165
BREAKING STEREOTYPES BEHIND AND BEYOND THE WALL
“Every success that I have isn’t just for me. It’s disproving stereotypes.” When Chandler Dugal entered the correctional system right after graduating college, few could have predicted what the next three years would look like. During his incarceration, Chandler earned a graduate certificate in Homeland Security Studies, completed a Master’s in Public Administration through Penn State and became the first person at Maine Correctional Center to begin remote employment with a Manhattan law firm. And if that wasn’t setting the bar, both literal and figurative higher, he competed in debates, via the National Prison Debate League, against some of the nation’s top universities, and began building the foundation for what will soon be a legal career. In this episode Chandler shares his journey through incarceration, education, technology, family support, and personal accountability, and what can happen when correctional systems truly invest in preparing people for life beyond prison. Today, Chandler is a senior paralegal, Director of Operations for the National Prison Debate League, author of a growing Substack chronicling his incarceration experience, and an incoming law student at Northeastern University School of Law.
Friday, June 5, 202606/05/2026
The Beat Goes On
6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver
Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols.
ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers: the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.”
Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children.
Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens.
Max Page: last night’s U.S. Senate’s all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.
Thursday, June 4, 202606/04/2026
Transforming
6/4/26
Eric Nakajima, Holyoke’s Dir of Planning and Econ Dev: a proposed data center; the city’s hydro-created power; transforming the dilapidated K-Mart Plaza; also, Framebridge Custom Framing — opening & hiring soon.
Northampton-based poet and novelist Jendi Reiter on “Introvert Pervert” & his upcoming events at the Broadside and Odyssey Books.
Congressman Jim McGovern: the debate and vote on the Iran War and the War Powers Act. Any chance Congress can control Trump?
We Fishwrap Hadley’s Override, & Kelsey Flynn talks turkey.
Nhtn Jazz Fest Pres Ruth Griggs, Grammy Award-winning vocalist Catherine Russell & jazz vocalist Carol Abbe Smith on “The Girls in the Band” & Int’l Sweethearts of Rhythm — coming to the Northampton Center for the Arts.
