Podcasts: Vaya Con Muñoz
Vaya Con Muñoz
Vaya con Muñoz is hosted by Natalia Muñoz, a multimedia journalist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Interviews and rants and raves on politics, culture and media, in English and en español. Airs Saturdays 10-11am and Sunday nights at 7pm.
Vaya Con Muñoz 9.19.20
This week our panel of political commentators tackle qualified immunity and why we haven’t seen more states move to end it; discuss Matt’s article in wmasspi.com on how the Springfield City council has become something of a launchpad for political careers in the statehouse and how two of those council members are navigating leaving their positions on the council as they head to Boston; react to the ICE whistleblower from Georgia who alleges that a doctor at an ICE detainment facility was performing unnecessary, and sometimes concentless, hysterectomies on female detainees, and how that plays into the US’s history of eugenics and forced sterilization; discuss Northampton’s recent experience with the Shared Streets and Spaces Project, and the backlash it received from the business community downtown; and are joined by a special “guest” who zoom-bombs the panel.
Vaya Con Muñoz 9.12.20
This week we are joined by our regular panelists – Kata Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring – to talk about the plight of journalism, local and national, in the modern era; Bob Woodword and both the contents of his upcoming book, and the moral implications of his decision to wait to release them; the near brilliance of Trump’s narcissism; and an upcoming article in Matt’s blog, Western Mass Politics and Insight, on the Baker backed Super PAC’s activity in western mass and the commonwealth as whole.
Vaya Con Muñoz 9.5.20
This week our panelists – Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Yolanda Cancel, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring – talk about the recent Massachusetts state primary on September 1st, and the fallout from the results of it; racism and trumpism in the hilltowns, and how best the left can respond; and whether silence is the same as complicity, and what we can do to speak up in the age of Trump.
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.29.20
This week we are joined by our panelists Kate Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring to talk about the upcoming Massachusetts primary, and the various races in western mass; parenting during the current era, and how that differs from the parenting of the past; Melania Trump’s evil eye ( https://twitter.com/CaslerNoel/status/1299185608133410818?s=20 ); the demise of polite politics in the US; and what being an American means to each of us, and the role of Patriotism in 2020
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.22.20
On this week’s episode of Vaya con Munoz, the panel talks about the democratic convention, and their feelings on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being the nominees; the Ed Markey vs Joe Kenedy III race, and Nancy Peloci’s questionable endorsement in that race; the direction of the Democratic party and what that means for progressives in 2020 and beyond; and the continuing scandal involving the Young Democrats of Massachusetts and candidate for US representative, Alex Morse.
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.15.20
This week we are joined by our panelists, Nathaniel Waring, Kate Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski and Danny Torres and we are talking about Kamala Harris’s nomination for vice president, the various state and local races heating up in Western Massachusetts, Ed Markey’s rocking new campaign ad, the recent revelations about the Alex Morse controversy, and the Trump administration’s ongoing assault of the United States Postal Service and mail in voting.
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.8.20
This week the pane;, Nathaniel Waring, Kate Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski and Danny Torres on school reopenings (Smith College and Springfield Public Schools are full remote) and what that means to their children; how much influence, if any, do endorsements by organizations and national and local figures have on political races (speaking here about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supporting Sen. Markey and support from others for Holyoke Mayor Morse and Congressman Neal; and finally,who do we want presidential candidate Biden to select as VP.
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.1.20
This week’s panel of political commentators, Nathaniel Waring, Matt Szafranski and Kate Albright-Hanna, on the school reopening and how another plan is needed; the who fired who? legal battle at the Holyoke Soldiers Home; federal agents in soldier uniforms arresting and whisking away BLM protesters in unmarked vehicles; the nation’s economy continues to spiral down.
Vaya Con Muñoz 7.25.20
The panel discusses Congressman Richard Neal’s characterization of Mayor Alex Morse ad about his brother’s death due to addiction as “political;” Springfield Police Commissioner Cheryl Claprood appears to believe that, witnesses and video evidence to the contrary, her officers always show exemplary conduct in controversial incidents; the Minneapolis police officer who suffocated George Floyd t death under-reported almost $500,000 in taxes; camouflaged police officers to control marches is a warning sign of how the Trump administration continues to weaponize differences of opinion, free speech and human rights.
On the program: Yolanda Cancel, a former police officer; Kate-Albright Hanna, documentary filmmaker; Matt Szafranski, founder and editor of WesternMassPI.com; Danny Torres, political commentator; and Nathaniel Waring, political commentator.
Vaya Con Muñoz 7.11.20
Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, Nathaniel Waring and Matt Szafranski (www.westernmapi.com) join Natalia Muñoz on topics ranging from the Catholic Church getting $1.4 Billion taxpayer dollars; the US Dept. of Justice finding that the Springfield Police Department’s Narcotics Unit has a sordid history of violence; the pandemic is not anywhere near over and so the schools should not open; Nathaniel’s personal story on feeling danger; and Goya Foods betraying Latinos in favoring Trump.
