We’re back from vacation!

But while we were gone, we got the chance to see our friends, which is at the core of a neat initiative. Mary Daire of Dare Bottleshop and Provisions talks us through Come Over October, which is encouraging  you to libate and reconnect with a bottle and those you love. 

And some of those friends are hitting milestones we’ve gotta celebrate. The Stavros Center for Independent Living is turning 50, and celebrating with a sold-out Gala later this week. It’s been 5 decades of growth and change since that first group of activists began this journey in a farmhouse in Amherst, and we’ll speak with CEO Angelina Ramirez, and friend of the show and director of development Jason Montgomery about the history of the organization, the many programs it’s created in it’s past 50 years, and what it has planned for the next half century. 

And Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Hampshire College and Kainaat Studios welcomes us back with a look at the looming and very real threat of nuclear war, how the trillions America has dedicated to nuclear weapons effects that prospect globally, and how the nuclear industry and their ideology is permeating academia here in New England