Category: Podcasts

Sexual Get Togethers and Drugs: McGoverning with McGovern

Why wasn’t Monte invited to any of these Madison Hawthorne parties? And what is the Congressman doing to make legal…

Mourning The Connecticut River

First Light Power is in the process of relicensing its dams in Turners Falls and ?Northfield. Environmental activist and journalist…

Comedy always comes with a punch: WORD NERD

Emily Brewster, on the week of one of the most famous punches of all time, talks about what the dictionary…

Vijay Prashad on the Global Implications on the War in Ukraine

Northampton’s own leader of the Tricontinental Institute, Vijay Prashad, is in conversation tonight about the war in Ukraine. But in…

Life is like a bowl…

And you can fill people’s bowls by getting involved with Amherst Survival Center’s Empty Bowl Dinner. Monte talks with ASC’s…

Dam! Things aren’t looking good for our mighty CT River

Monte talks with Andy Fisk, director of The Connecticut River Conservancy, about the stalemate with First Light Power when it…

ORCs are REAL!

But they might not be what you expect. Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed tells us what we know and…

Chardon-YAY!

Monte and The Wine Snobs at State Street urge you to reconsider Chardonnay. And by you, we mean that person…

McGovern’s Thoughts on Judge Brown Jackson

Congressman Jim McGovern on the Supreme Court nominee’s hearings. Plus answering listener questions about the ongoing war in Ukraine and…

Ax vs Axe: WORD NERD

Which spelling of ax/axe should get the ax/axe? Monte asks Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/ax-vs-axe-word-nerd?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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