Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, March 22, 202403/22/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 54
THE NURTURING FATHERS PROGRAM
Rewind 25 years, and for most men, their parenting role was that of bread winner and disciplinarian, like their father before them, and so on. Mark Perlman, a licensed social worker, and councilor saw an opportunity to change that dynamic while the Executive Director of his wife’s counseling center. As Mark so aptly puts it, “I started writing a program that would offer fathers a workbook guide, but as I wrote the program, I felt as if the subject matter was coming through me, rather than from me’. Mark’s program, and soon to be passed on to one of Mark’s sons, Corey, is being facilitated through counseling agencies, the military, social work curriculums and behind the walls of minimum, medium or maximum prisons, across the United States. Mark’s program takes the voluntary participants on a journey from understanding the roots of their own upbringing to developing attitudes and skills that will ultimately, over the course of the program’s 13 weeks, heal their father wound and change the trajectory of their relationship with their children.
Friday, March 22, 202403/22/2024
Western Mass Business Show on 3.16.24 — Andre Boulay from A2Z
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we welcome Andre Boulay to the show. Many know him from his A2Z fame while others may know him as a Yo-Yo champion. Growing up in the Hilltowns of the 413, Andre always saw Northampton as the place to be. It led him to the store and to Jack and Priscilla Finn who started the store many years before it moved to King Street in Thornes Market. There he and his wife Dev realized that their passion could become a reality and they purchased the store from the Finn’s. Now 2 businesses yoyoexpert.com and
a2zscience.com they are going strong. Pierce and Ella (their 2 kids) are the envy of other children I’m sure but the Boulays make sure to keep community in their focus as they give back to many nonprofits and school PTO fundraisers. Thank you for coming on Andre, we missed you Dev.
Friday, March 22, 202403/22/2024
Celebrate Life
3/22/24: Rep Mindy Domb: her re-election, state’s $ woes & potholes. Donnabelle Casis w/ Siddhartha Shah, Director, the Mead Art Museum: “Trópico es Político: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime.” Scarlet Sock Foundation: founder Margaret Russo w/ Bd members Emily Ditkovski & Kelsey Flynn – CELEBRATE!
Thursday, March 21, 202403/21/2024
Pardon Me: Gov. Maura Healey on This Show
3/21/24: DHG & Glfd Recorder Editor Dan Crowley on girls’ sports & op-ed letters. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: her recent three weeks in Israel. Ruth Griggs w/ bassist Lynn Lovell: her upcoming AoM performance. Gov. Maura Healey on pardoning thousands convicted of marijuana possession.
Wednesday, March 20, 202403/20/2024
Big Questions
Greenfield Community College VP of Workforce Development, Kristen Cole. Rev Mark Seifried of Haydenville Congregational Church. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen asks, Why wasn’t this Northampton cop fired? UMass Prof Charmaine Nelson, Dir of Slavery North Initiative.
Tuesday, March 19, 202403/19/2024
Filling in the Holes
3/19/24: Live from Tandem Bagel: Cool Films with Larry Hott: “Remembering Gene Wilder.” Spring? The Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Amherst schools on the fiscal cliff? School Comm. member Jennifer Shiao responds. “The Celtification of Emily Dickinson” with Rosie Caine & Robert Boulrice.
Monday, March 18, 202403/18/2024
Justice
3/18/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: school funding. Atty Luke Ryan on erroneous convictions. Hon. Michael Ponsor, federal judge and novelist, on “Point of Order.” Northampton School Superintendent Dr. Portia Bonner: schools teetering on a fiscal cliff.
Friday, March 15, 202403/15/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 53
THE HUMAN IMPACT FROM A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE X 5
In 1989 two horrific crimes took place in New York City. The first was the rape and almost death of the woman who would be come to know as the Central Park jogger. The second was the arrest, interrogations, and ultimate prison sentencing of five Black and Latino teenagers, for that crime. A crime they would later be exonerated for, in 2002. It was during her senior year of college in 2003, while interning for a law firm, that Sarah Burns began the arduous process of unearthing the entire story, initially for her college thesis, to understand why and how these five teenagers could have been so falsely convicted. Almost a decade later, Sarah, simultaneously, along with her husband David McMahon, not only published the book, The Central Park Five; A Chronicle of a City Wilding, but along with her father, documentarian, Ken Burns, produced, wrote, and directed a film by the same name. The Central Park Five documentary received numerous awards in 2012/2013 and is still available to watch via streaming.
Friday, March 15, 202403/15/2024
Occupations
3/15/24: Activists Paki Wieland, Priscilla Lynch & Nick Mottern: occupying Rep Jim McGovern’s Northampton office. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on Gaza & permissible use of earned sick time. Donnabelle Casis w/ Lucia Monge: the natural world recycled. Kennedy Institute for U.S. Senate CEO Adam Hinds. David Knowles w/ Producer-Director Jean Koester on “The Cemetery Club.”
