More from the White House Conference on Hunger Nutrition and Health including Congressman McGovern’s post-conference thoughts, what the Beacon Hill delegation is doing to combat hunger in Massachusetts and why Chef Jose Andres was unimpressed. Plus I met a chef to the astronauts?

ALIENS! Did 60 schoolchildren in Zimbabwe see aliens in September 1994? Western Mass filmmakers have made a documentary about this Ariel Phenomenon.

I’ll take you to the White House Conference on Hunger Health and Nutrition. We’ll hear excerpts from the President’s speech and his plan to end hunger in the US by 2030. And yes, a little about the gaffe. I’ll take you to the immersive world of Deus Ex Machina. And we’ll hear about the spacecraft NASA just smashed into an asteroid on purpose

Gearing up for the White House Conference on Food Nutrition Health and Hunger with Congressman Jim McGovern. Getting to know the Puritan Tiger Beetle of Rainbow Beach, Northampton. The science of belly-button cheese with the folks behind the Tumble Science Podcast for Kids. And the dumb phone of the metaverse.

Guess who’s going to the White House Conference on Food Nutrition Health and Hunger? We’ll talk with Congressman Jim McGovern about his long hoped for and worked for conference, just two weeks away. More of Merriam-Webster’s new words. Two new ones from television. I’ll take you to the movies with a movie tribute in a corn maze and with the editor of Children of The Corn. And Back To The Future.

Has the Trump-effect taken hold of Charlie Baker’s Republican Part in Massachusetts? Thoughts post-primary from Congressman Jim McGovern. Let’s yeet the janky cringe sus! Now a real sentence thanks to the new words just added to Merriam-Webster. Our Word Nerd has more. Chef Nef and I eat our way through Holyoke, this time Colombian food. Western Mass is finally taking a moment to grieve our loved ones lost to COVID. We’ll hear about the memorial happening in Goshen. LOTS of shellfish and wine.

Two Juilliard students are trying to break the mold of music instruction and have formed an anti-conservatory, a libretory if you will, on a hill in Gill. Well hear from Congressman McGovern, who has a date for his White House hunger conference and a party that is gaining some momentum. How the drought has been affecting local farmers and the local agency here to help. Borrowing accents for English with the Word Nerd. And protecting Greenfield’s drinking water with the Source to Sea Cleanup.

Rock Goddess June Millington, and her partner Ann Hackler from the Institute for Musical Arts on how they are creating a rock goddess pantheon. Mr. Universe will prepare us for phase one of the female mission to the moon with the launch of Artemis I. What do Bjork and Motorhead have in common? Diacritics. We’ll hear all about from Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster. Resurrecting an extinct tiger, Jurassic Park style, and why it might not be such a scary idea. Delicious and cheap Portuguese wine and

Bonnie Prince Billy aka Will Oldham on acting in the most famous made for TV movie of my childhood and on coaching Johnny Cash. SEX! With local sex therapist and now published author Yanna Tallon-Hicks. Her new book is Hot & Unbothered. Arm-wrestling for abortion access. This etymology of the marshmallow and more.

How Medeski and Martin of Medeski, Martin and Wood are teaming up with Algonquin singers and an electric guitarist and our areas greatest taco chef to create a viable future. Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan. Good idea or bad idea? We’ll hear what one of her top dogs in the House, Congressman Jim McGovern has to say. Commemorating the anniversary of the El Paso massacre with National Book Award winning poet Martín Espada. A kids cookbook author with the name Cook. Destiny. The little-known etymology of the word “ketchup” with the Word Nerd. Some esoteric white wines with the Wine Snobs.

A post-apocalyptic Northampton? Rival landscaping companies MURDERING each other in Easthampton? I’ll introduce you to the imagination of local hero author Tom Pappalardo. How Joe Manchin is giving Congressman Jim McGovern whiplash. And The Congressman’s new drag name! Celebrating Joni Mitchell’s historic musical comeback. Taking a look at the first ever unionized Trader Joe’s, right here in Hadley. Taking theater back to the land in an attempt to bring the land back. The final performance in the 30 plus year history of the Ko Festival of Performance. Plus rum.