Category: Podcasts

It’s Valley Grows Day!

Monte talks with the leaders of four incredible food justice organizations to encourage you to GIVE on Valley Grows Day.…

How To Save The Shortnose Sturgeon

Environmental journalist and activist Karl Meyer take Monte for a walk by the Rock Dam in Turners Falls, perhaps the…

Our Plutonium Ocean: Mr. Universe

Why is there plutonium at the bottom of our ocean? And why is it actually a very cool thing? https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/our-plutonium-ocean-mr-universe

Weird Whites

Monte and two other weird white wine snobs taste 3 weird white wines in the Wine Cage, adjacent to the…

Peskeompskut Day of Remembrance

David Brule, a native of Turners Falls and a Native American, is the president of The Nolumbeka Project. He tells…

The GOP Eats Their Own: McGoverning with McGovern

Congressman Jim McGovern on the removal of Liz Cheney from her leadership position and other drama in his chamber. Plus…

Marked by COVID

Jennifer Ritz Sullivan from Goshen, MA lost her mom to COVID five months ago. Now she has become a strong…

The M-W NFT

A very special Word Nerd segment with Merriam-Webster’s Editor-at-Large, Peter Sokolowski, who does explains the very meta way Merriam-Webster is…

Making The Land of Asparagus Green

Monte talks with Jack Czajkowski from the Hadley Climate Change Committee about greening Hadley…and also about asparagus. Listen to their…

The Sky Isn’t Falling: Mr. Universe

Was the Chinese satellite plummeting to Earth really a major threat? Or is it all propaganda in the new space…

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