Nick and Noah dive the thought-experiment horror film The Mist, and how the monsters are secondary to the real horror of people caught in a closed environment, not to mention one of the bleakest endings ever put to film.

Filmmaker Mike Purvis sits down with Noah to analyze Woody Allen's 2011 comic fantasy romantic romp Midnight in Paris and what it has to say about the dangers that come with romanticizing the past.

S3 Episode 1: Alan Bern – Recorded December 20, 2025   Photo: Shendi Copitman“So I got an accordion, I put it on my back, and I went to Europe ... “Do tune in to hear how Alan’s story intertwines music and speec...

Chico educates Noah on the surprising thematic density of the camp musical sensation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the number of interpretations that can be read from it.

Noah and Charlie discuss the unbridled creative, thoughtful, and contagious silliness of 1991's Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, and what makes it a perfect sequel.

Cedar swindles Noah into watching the ultra low-budget outsider film So Long Suburbia that prompts bittersweet reflections on the highs and lows of 2010s pop culture.

Noah chats with actor Matthew Schofield to dive into the film that inspired this show, Robert Altman's 1971 anti-western McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and attempt to break down what makes the film so hauntingly beautiful.

Description: Noah sits down with old friend Joshua Rosen to discuss the Coen Brothers' 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis and how its wintry depiction of artistic struggles resonate now as creatives in a money-driven world.What makes a movie ...

Premiere Episode: Hiring a lawyer is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in a divorce or family case. This episode covers how to choose the right attorney, what to ask, common mistakes people make, and the warning signs that ...

S2 Episode 4: Fran Miller–Recorded December1, 2025 Photo: courtesy Fran MillerFran moved up to Vermont from New York City in the fall of 2019 to work at the Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. Outside her profes...

Ep Bio: Noah Mauchly sits down with Media Maker Hayden Young to discuss his upbringing in the Upper Valley watching age-inappropriate movies and what led him to become the filmmaker he is today.Join the JAM team as they discuss all thing...

S2 Episode 3: Sandra Gartner – Recorded November 20, 2025   Photo: Sandy with book, by LioraAmong many roles that she plays, Sandra Gartner has been co-producer of Vermont Actors’...

S2 Episode 2: Irit Librot–Recorded November 12,2025 Courtesy Photo: Irit. Irit Librot takes us through her early years in Haifa immediately following the creation of the State and the subsequent move to the US where “the streets are paved with ...

The chokehold has been lifted. America breathes again! I mean we narrowly avoided complete, self-inflicted disaster. After harrowing days of the most long-drawn-out government shutdown in U.S. history—a marathon of political brinkmanship—Congre...

S2: Episode 1: Kesha Ram-Hinsdale–Recorded November 7, 2025 Courtesy Photo: Kesha and baby, VT Statehouse.Kesha Ram-Hinsdale, as we establish at the outset, is our Vermont Senate Majority Leader, and yet here, she is not talking...

Hi! I’m happy to be back with a second season of OJT. Here, in Episode 0, I have a few words about the "why”of the podcast and some thoughts on this season in the short S2 E0 audio. And let me tease Episode 1–we start out with a great conversat...

Episode 5 Description: On Canal Street in Brattleboro are the remains of one of Vermont’s most influential companies. In the 19th and early 20th century people across the country—and the world—played music on reed organs made right here ...

Episode 6: Roberta Berner – Recorded September 3, 2025  Courtesy Photo: Roberta Berner, with her husband, Rich AbelRoberta has accomplished so much, one would think she lived three lives rather than lived in three places: the deep Sout...

Episode 5: Ilsa Pinkson-Burke & Briane Pinkson  – Recorded August 6, 2025  Courtesy Photo: Briane on the left, Ilsa on the rightIlsa Pinkson-Burke and Briane Pinkson grew up going to “shula”, a Cooperative...

Episode 4: Ben Thresher's Mill: A few miles off the interstate, on the banks of the Stevens river in Barnet, Vermont is a bright yellow mill. The rooms are crammed full of old tools, machines, parts, and pieces of a bygone age. One ...

Recorded August 12, 2025  Photo: by LABeing a Jew is central to Gene’s identity. He seeks to be a better Jew as a way to be a better person, practices kyudo, goes to sabbath services as a way of meditation, and attends to t...

Listen in to the inaugural episode of Pass the Torch featuring a special introductory interview with co-host Sen. White digging into Sen. McCormack’s legislative legacy. Highlights include advice on when to stay in the fight and when to pass th...

Episode 3: Joy Gaine – Recorded July 29, 2025  Photo: Courtesy Joy GaineJoy defines herself as a teacher, musician, and mother. Her sense of herself as a Jew rose post October 7th with questions on whether being Jewi...

Daniel Intraub – I knew Daniel solely through a series of graphics projects, both professional and protest-related, that he supported at Gnomon Copy in Hanover, NH. It was the latter type of project that got us talking about the conflict in Gaz...

In the early 20th century one Vermonter found fame as a traveling musician, humorist, and recording artist. Charles Ross Taggart was at the height of his career in the early 1920s, touring the country and talking so much about Vermont he earned...