June 18, 2025: Pride octopedes waters.

Today on the show, we double your Pride, double you chance to party for equality. We’ll head up to Charlemont and get wet at Zoar Outdoors. Jason Costa and Ann Gillard take us out on the river for a paddling experience, not unlike the ones folx will experience at their Pride event this weekend. We’ll hear about the importance of creating queer space outside, and hear about the classes, clinics and party they’ve got planned as we take a few kayaks on the Deerfield RiverWe’ll also head to Holyoke who’ve got Pride Fest happening this weekend. The city will be a-buzz with a wealth of activity, but post parade partying is headed back to one of our favorite haunts in Hampden county: Fame Eatery and Lounge. We’ll chat with proprietor David Blood, and mixologist and pride committee member Alex Torres about what fun activities you can expect on Dwight Street this Saturday. And word nerd Emily Brewster, senior Editor at Merriam Webster, has us take a closer look at the way our language pluralizes things, and how other languages we’ve borrowed from are leaving their marks at the end of words in English. (Looking right at you octopus, and you too mouse.)