JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks

Located in White River Junction, VT and Claremont, NH – and everywhere via social media and the Internet – Riverbank Church's media strategy has contributed to its growth and mission. This week, Lead Pastor Chris Goeppner and Director of Operations Ira Richards join Samantha on a deep dive into the role of media and storytelling in this Upper Valley faith community. 

In this episode of Mediated Lives, we have an unprecedented situation: The person writing this very bio, the person editing this very podcast and the person being interviewed this very week are the exact. Same. Person. Hello. It is I, Kelsie Hogue also known as Sir Babygirl. The meta of this overwhelms and fascinates me; I feel as if I am in a multimedia hall of mirrors, or that Spiderman meme wit...

Eavesdrop on Samantha's conversation with JAM's own Dartmouth Social Impact Fellow Maria Hebling (Dartmouth '27), a brilliant young mind in today's mercurial media landscape. Maria lends her unique perspectives on cultural differences via social media, the life-changing impact of media on her as a teen in rural Brazil during COVID, and the What and Why of the JAM media literacy...

In Mediated Lives' 6th episode, Samantha picks local family doctor Julie Davis' brain about her experience serving the community's health in our current media landscape. They talk healthy social media habits, discuss the pros and cons of our sticky web of internet culture in today's children and teens, and what healthy family boundaries around tech might look like. 

Vital Communities' Communications Manager and local sweetheart Rebecca Bailey joins Samantha to reveal the brass tacks of Upper Valley Listservs and all the ways they act as connective tissue for the people, places and things of our unique collection of rural towns. 

This week, Samantha and Lebanon, NH City Manager Shaun Mulholland join forces to discuss how media and the work of local government intersect – or collide – and how changes in the broader political culture and media landscape telescope to the local, for better and worse.  With an emphasis on optimistic problem-solving and fearless navigation of the human beings inside the politics, Shaun breaks do...

Episode 3: In this week’s NSFW episode, Samantha is joined by local quadruple threat (comedian, author, educator and inn keeper), Cindy Pierce as they navigate the choppy waters of all things sex and social media. An expert at making the uncomfortable wonderfully engaging, Cindy takes Samantha on an illuminating and no holds barred tour of the developing human brain on porn, AI and general screen...

Episode 2:  Rod Smolla, Vermont Law and Graduate School President, joined Samantha in the studio to dig into tough and topical questions about free speech at a moment when social media hold unprecedented sway over our politics.  As an attorney who has argued high-profile free speech cases before the Supreme Court, Smolla offers an illuminating guide to the legally perplexed!  Show Bio: Media shape...

Episode 1:  Journalist and Daybreak editor Rob Gurwitt joined Samantha in the JAM audio studio to contemplate how the reporting and delivery local news has changed as digital media tools have upended traditional models.  How can we strengthen the social fabric and encourage democratic participation in the context of divisive social media algorithms and a culture of distraction? Show Bio: Media sha...

In our 19th episode, we hear about the myriad opportunities to build community in the UV - from poetry to knitting and beyond - as experienced by our guest, a recent transplant accustomed to the diversity of New York City and Berkeley, CA. This podcast is intended to build bridges between community members by providing an opportunity to anyone who is willing to share their personal experience of i...

Our guest shares a challenging experience of community censure in a small Upper Valley town. Reflecting on the nature of community in places where they lived previously, including New York, New Orleans, and a small midwestern farm town, they consider the ways that Vermonters identify themselves through their shared culture and sometimes in opposition to outsiders.

Maeve and Noah sit down with two of the WRIF 2025 Emerging Filmmakers winners, Natalie Jones ("Frame Remainder") and Annika Murdock ("Deepfake Girl") to talk about their films and their experience with WRIF.  Join Maeve and the rest of the JAM team as they discuss all things JAM and what's going on in the Upper Valley. Send suggestions and feedback to Maeve at Maeve@uvjam....

Episode 4 – A WRIF in the JAM/SPACE Continuum – Join the JAM crew as they talk about the upcoming White River Indie Film Festival. Tune in to find out about upcoming events this weekend, the origins of the festival, and the selection process. Join Maeve and the rest of the JAM team as they discuss all things JAM and what's going on in the Upper Valley. Send suggestions and feedback to Maeve a...

In this episode, Brian sits down with his very own wife Caitlin. They talk about swear words, olfactory ambitions and things you can't even conceive of until you hear them yourself. Looking for a loyal, pint-sized partner who'll fill your days with love and laughter? Meet the perfect little companion who's ready to steal your heart (and your couch)! Brian recently went on a sleepove...

In the latest episode ( #4 ) of Rethink Local's "Upper Valley Vibes" podcast, we talk Civility, critical thinking, education, Principles of Discourse, and community |  I sit down with Greg Prince, former Dean at Dartmouth and former President of Hampshire College, at his home in Norwich Vermont. We talk about his long and inspiring career in education where Greg has worked tirelessl...

In this episode, I speak with Ihn Jae.  The elder years bring their unique challenges and changes. What does living a vibrant, meaningful life look like in this "third act"? In this podcast, I talk with women from my everyday life who stand out as inspiring examples of aging with zest about how they do that.

In this episode, Brian is joined by coworker and friend Caleb. They discuss physical forms of music versus the streaming age, Buttrock, Boyz II Men, Celebrity Death Match and Brian having a broken arm.  Looking for a loyal, pint-sized partner who'll fill your days with love and laughter? Meet the perfect little companion who's ready to steal your heart (and your couch)! Brian recently we...

In this episode, Brian sits down with friend and coworker Drea. They talk about finally knowing nothing, reminiscing on when they thought they knew everything, and all the gasps in between.  Looking for a loyal, pint-sized partner who'll fill your days with love and laughter? Meet the perfect little companion who's ready to steal your heart (and your couch)! Brian recently went on a slee...

PRELUDE JAM Audiobook Read by the author Helen Taylor Davidson Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson About the novel In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated...

PRELUDE JAM Audiobook Read by the author Helen Taylor Davidson Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson About the novel In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated...

Looking for a loyal, pint-sized partner who'll fill your days with love and laughter? Meet the perfect little companion who's ready to steal your heart (and your couch)! Brian recently went on a sleepover and did great, met some cats and slept in a human bed and loved it all!! Meet our next eligible bachelor, Brian! He has been waiting for his forever home for quite some time. He is look...

In this episode, I invited some VIPs from outside the Upper Valley up to Junction Arts Media's (Formerly CATV) podcast recording studio in White River Junction. (Which by the way, JAM is a partner on this podcast and that podcast recording studio can be used by anyone! There are some links in the show notes with more info if you're interested in that.) Anyway, if you live in Raymond New...

Hi everyone my name is Alex Torpey, your host of the new Upper Valley Vibes podcast. As we get this thing going I wanted to share a little bit about my goals for the podcast, and first, share a little of my background so you all can get to know where I’m coming from and the perspective that will be part of this podcast. I think it's important to know about the context of people who we listen...

Hi Alex Torpey here, your host of Upper Valley Vibes. In this episode, I take a walk on the rail trail in Lebanon with Josh Crane of Norwich, Vermont. Josh is the Senior Producer and Managing Editor of the really great podcast Brave Little State that many of you have probably heard of, produced by Vermont Public. Before joining Brave Little State and moving to the Upper Valley in 2021, Josh spent...

PRELUDE JAM Audiobook Read by the author Helen Taylor Davidson Based on the 1854 Diary of Adeline Elizabeth Hoe Edited by Richard Davidson and Helen Taylor Davidson About the novel In the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary.  Filled with six months of the details of a young girl’s life, the diary offers a wonderful window into the mind of an educated...