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NEPM's Nancy Cohen reports on difficulties in western Massachusetts employment, inspiring Monte Belmonte and Kaliis Smith to do a little reconnaissance of their own. Plus the Word Nerd takes us to the bestest part of her building: the spooky word-filled basement — and Kaliis talks about word games.

CISA comes through with Alice Coleman of Stony Hill Farm in Wilbraham to let us know what's good growing in the wintertimes. And professor Ilan Stavans gets expansive on his new book "The People's Tongue," in which Peter Sokolowski of NEPM and Merriam-Webster has an article, so we bring him along too.

Louise Dunphy of Celtic Crossings gives us a rundown of Celtic happenings in western Massachusetts this weekend. Kristen van Ginhoven, artistic director of WAM Theater, joins us to talk about their mission and their upcoming show. And since it's Thursday, we mcgovern with the one and only Rep. Jim McGovern.

Our podcast features the outrageous, funny and heartwarming true stories told by your friends and neighbors at Valley Voices Story Slam events throughout western Massachusetts.Valley Voices Story Slam is presented by New England Public Media and the Academy of Music Theatre.

Rosemary Caine brings her harp and her band. Emer Maguire and Gerald Costello of Elms College help us learn a little Irish. And Sean Barry of Four Seasons Wine brings us to the whiskey thunderdome.

Michael Stinson and Johnny Irion join us ahead of their show at the Egremont Barn, we continue our tour at the Clark Art Institute, and we take the Wine Thunderdome to Table & Vine in West Springfield, Mass.

We chat with local astronomer Salman Hameed and astronaut Cady Coleman about space things! But that's not all Coleman does; she also plays flute! So we brought her bandmate Chris Devine of Minstrels in the Gallery along to give us some cosmic music.

We begin our "Meet the Mayors" segment with Mayor Joshua Garcia of Holyoke, Mass., get to the core definitions of love with The Word Nerd, Emily Brewster, and have law professor Jennifer Taub explain the mess of grand juries and former presidents within which we are currently entrenched.

Artistic director Jane Eilber and dancer Anne Souder of The Martha Graham company chat with us on legacy and evolution ahead of their show at Umass, and we hang out with Laurie Cuevas of Thomas Farm & Dairy in Sunderland, who lets us hug it out with all the baby goats.

John Hodgman, former western Mass. resident, stops by to chat on his new tv show, we take a tour of the Clark Museum in Williamstown, and Rep. Jim McGovern gives us the Capitol Hill rundown.