Category: Podcasts

Don’t @ me or I’ll flex and cancel your bubble: WORD NERD

Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster on some of the 500+words just added to the dictionary. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/dont-me-or-ill-flex-and-cancel-your-bubble-word-nerd

A Plea From Sanctuary

When the Trump administration threatened to deport people living in the US, undocumented, but following the previous rules some took…

The Spaying of Moira Rose

Dr. Steve from Sunderland Animal Hospital walks The Belmontes through the fixin’ of their pandemic kitty, Moira Roise. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/moira-rose-spayed-heavy-petting

Hank Aaron’s Batboy-Ashfield’s Buz Eisenberg Esq!

Buz Eisenberg gives lawyers a good name. Tirelessly working for human rights. But before he was a lawyer, he was…

A More See-Through Beacon Hill

Matt Barron from Indivisible Williamsburg and the Act on Mass Campaign on the movement to make the Massachusetts House more…

The Alien Asteroid? MR UNIVERSE

Mr. Universe, Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed, taking umbrage with a Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb, who thinks this asteroid…

Three French wines that are Da Baumb

The Wine Snobs at State Street taste three french reds, Ventoux turtle doves and a well, you know… https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/three-french-wines-that-are-da-baumb

A New Day Dawns: McGoverning with McGovern

Congressman McGovern was at the Biden/Harris inauguration and gives us his impression. And he tells us what comes next. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/a-new-day-dawns-mcgoverning-with-mcgovern

The Lexicographical History of Inauguration: WORD NERD

Are soothsayers and seers behind the inauguration of Presidents? They’re certainly behind the word “inauguration.” Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from…

The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather: NASA’s 2020 Climate Report

Monte and Mr. Universe, Hampshire College Astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed, talk with NASA Cryosphere Scientist, Rachel Tilling, about more bad…

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