Sunshine juice runs

04/18/23 • 49 min

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We get to go both forward and backward in time today, which is fitting for a Monday somehow.

Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed tells us about the ESA's new probe JUICE (already taking selfies in space), its mission to the moons of Jupiter, and the lengths we do to make sure the probe looks but doesn't touch.

Then we digress quite a bit about pizza and semantics with Jarrett J. Krosoczka. He's got a new graphic memoir out called "Sunshine" that will receive a full cast reading treatment on April 18th at the Academy of Music in Northampton. We pick his brain about the origins of the book and the ways the events have influenced his life today.

Plus it was the holiday that only 5 other states celebrate, and on which we look east to watch folx run 26.2 miles into the state capital. Neither of our hosts are particularly fond of running, however, so they look to you for other marathon-esque activities you may have participated in!

(Do tell us at [email protected], we are curious indeed)

We get to go both forward and backward in time today, which is fitting for a Monday somehow.

(Do tell us at [email protected], we are curious indeed)

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Sleepy Winter Wine

It was wicked warm out today. But just because it's warming up, doesn't mean we can't get comfy with it.

The heat makes us think of white wine. In the Berkshires we have our very first set of white wines in the thunderdome, courtesy of Nejaime's Wine Cellars in Lenox. Our hosts Joe Nejaime and Xavier Letteron even threw an extra wrench into this showdown, for which we were entirely game.

Our studios are currently being moved down the street to our new offices, but it's Friday, and having live music has become a fixture. So instead we headed to Northampton to meet Flora Reed and Philip Price of The Winterpills to do a live music Friday at The Parlor Room instead.

With beverages and music covered, we just need a good read to round it out. Lucky for us, local author and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder has a new book out called "Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People". We chat with him about the people called to help, and how simple solutions don’t always suit complex problems.

Cozy bases all covered.

**Please note: The reading included from the Tracy Kidder book mentions suicidal ideation

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A noted field of grief and pie

Some stories are best told by the people who have actually lived them.

But we can accompany those stories with pizza, because food is wonderful. Pizza Quest volume 3 hits the Berkshires as we make a stop, sadly without our amateur pizziaolo, to Betty's Pizza Shack in Lenox.

Then, as it is still April and therefore still National Poetry Month, local poet and social worker Lauren Singer joins us with some of her work and updates on her many projects examining grief and adaptations to loss, including a new podcast.

And CISA is preparing to host Field Notes, stories of our local foodways, at the Academy of Music. So we get a small preview of what will be onstage April 30th with Jacob Nelson and Trouble Erin Anne Gouch Mandeson.

**Please note: The Lauren Singer readings mention child death.