Category: Podcasts

Lights, Corn, ACTION!

Monte takes a tour of this year’s amazing maize in-corn-ation with the Mike’s Maze creators, Jess Marsh Wissemann and Dave…

The Disaster in Pakistan: MR. UNIVERSE

Hampshire College astronomer Dr. Salman Hameed on the confluence of astronomy, science education and climate change. He tells us about…

Captain Jack’s Pillages Chicopee: WINE SNOBS

Monte and The Wine Snobs at State Street catch up with Captain Jack, aka Kevin Sahagian, about his new food…

Scott Shucks at Glendale Ridge

Monte gets an imaginary oyster shucking lesson from local oyster shucking legend, Scott Soares-who, in his day job, is the…

Thoughts Post-Primary: McGoverning with McGovern

Congressman McGovern weighs in on some of the election results and gives us an update on the White House Conference…

Finally, a COVID Memorial: Marked By COVID

Monte talks with Kristin Urquiza, the founder of Marked By COVID, and Jennifer Ritz-Sulivan about their long-time-coming COVID Memorial coming…

Yeet the cringe janky sus: Merriam-Webster’s new words

Meet “yeet” one of the more than 370 new words added to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster…

El Paraiso Colombiano: Nef & Monte Eat Holyoke

It’s Monte and Chef Neftalí Duran’s semi-regular culinary throw-down, proving to River listeners that Holyoke has the best restaurants in…

The White House has a date with hunger

Congressman McGovern talks about the upcoming White House conference on hunger and talks about the shifting winds in opinion for…

Déjà vu-Diacritics Part Two: WORD NERD

Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster on the accent marks that have made their way into our dictionary from Springfield,…

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