Monte Belmonte

Monte Belmonte

Monte Belmonte 6am - 10am

Having grown up in the suburbs of Boston, I always thought Western Mass was a desolate wasteland. Now I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Well, I guess I can imagine it but I don’t WANT to live anywhere else. On this page you’ll find conversations with some of the people I find most interesting in our Valley. Authors, astronomers, astronauts and other people that start with letters other than “a.”

I got my start in radio impersonating Al Gore while off the air on Election Day 2000, and since that election dragged on and on, so has my radio career. I love bringing music and my “low minded humor for high minded people” (Wine Squirrel copyright 2017) to people of the Valley every weekday morning.

Thursday, October 24, 201310/24/2013

Sox In The Series: Erin McKeown Live from Game One

In Podcasts

The Queen of Quiet gets loud and excited at Fenway as the Sox take Game One of The World Series.  Plus,…

Thursday, October 24, 201310/24/2013

Word Nerd: Twerking On A New Word

In Podcasts

Emily Brewster is one of the Merriam-Webster editors tasked with working on twerking.

Wednesday, October 23, 201310/23/2013

Sox in The Series: Part 1

In Podcasts

Erin McKeown: Red Sox Correspondent

Monday, October 21, 201310/21/2013

Raise A Ruckus: Our locally grown circus

In Podcasts

Serenity Smith Forchion on Ruckus, The New England Center for Circus Arts and why she stands on her husband’s head for…

Monday, October 21, 201310/21/2013

Wine Snob: CardBordeux

In Podcasts

Inexpensive wines from the wine blending capital of the world.

Friday, October 18, 201310/18/2013

Barney Frank On The Shutdown

In Podcasts

With chaos in Congress, the former Congressman weighs in on why he thinks Republicans need to look at their own…

Thursday, October 17, 201310/17/2013

Word Nerd: Shame!

In Podcasts

Slut shaming.  Pet shaming.  Grammar shaming!  What does Emily Brewster and Merriam-Webster think about the language of shaming.  

Tuesday, October 15, 201310/15/2013

Wine Snob: Know Your Cheap French Wines!

In Podcasts

And LOVE them.

Tuesday, October 15, 201310/15/2013

You Down With NPP? 30 Years of Federal Budget Crunching

In Podcasts

The Northampton based National Priorities Project celebrates 30 years of helping math morons like Monte figure out where his tax…

Thursday, October 10, 201310/10/2013

James Kitchen at Days End and at Paradise City

In Podcasts

One of the Valley’s premier sculptors on the human condition and on Paradise City Arts Festival

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