Category: Podcasts

Meet The Seed Librarians!

A new Easthampton Seed Library? Why is this something the community even needs? Seeds?!? Meet two of the folks behind…

Heavy Petting: Fat Cat Stops Eating

It sounds like a good story, but it’s not.  But at least there’s hope!

Ben Clark : “Eco-Terrorist”

Are opponents of the Kinder Morgan pipeline ‘eco-terrorists’? Good Ben Clark, our local hero fruit farmer, responds to the Berkshire…

Mr. Universe: Monty’s Python’s ‘Galaxy Song’

How scientifically accurate is the classic Monty Python ‘Galaxy Song’ and what did cosmologist Stephen Hawking do to correct their…

The Literal ‘Fugees

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars formed in a refugee camp outside of their homeland in Guinea. They’ve taken their music…

Wine Snob: Road Trip To Wine Snobbery

Corsica, gorgeous isle of exile for dimunitive dictators, also has great wine.  Meanwhile,  a SHOCKING revelation from The Reverend Dr.…

The Throwaways

Monte talks with the filmmakers behind this stark new first-person look at racism and classism in our country.  Ira McKinley and…

Word Nerd: The Original Meaning of Words Part II

Emily Brewster, Resident Wordster, from Merriam-Webster give us the original meaning of some common words like garbage, bully and buxom!

Bisko, His Mother & Ebola

Kabisco Kaba took his students in PVPA’s Wofa to his native Guinea in West Africa.  Little did he know it would…

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