The Radical Centrist

Episodes

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   Randall Gibson - World Explorer

   This podcast. originally broadcast on the Mowglis Memories Podcast is offered here as well because of the extraordinary life of Randall Gibson.

   Feb 21, 2026

   1h 15m
2. Do We Need Superman? Elliot S! Maggin and the Legacy of Superman

   Elliot's career as a writer began with a colorful story about a Green Lantern comic that he wrote for a history class at Brandeis University, from which he graduated as the class Valedictorian, despite only getting a B+ on his comic book paper! The first comic spawned 15 more years of writing...

   Oct 16, 2025

   50m
3. W. Richard West Jr. Founding Director of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian

   W. Richard West Jr.. my guest on the podcast is the Founding Director of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian . A citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and a member of the Society of Southern Cheyenne Peace Chiefs, first among equals of the warrior societies among the Cheyenne and...

   Sep 12, 2025

   1h 58m
4. Ira Shapiro: "We're in a Dark Place" The Damage Runs Deep

   Ira Shapiro: "We're in a Dark Place" The Damage Runs Deep In this podcast we catch up with Ira Shapiro after just 150 days of the Donald Trump administration including the challenges ahead for democracy. As is always the case, for those who listen through the full podcast there are always gems to...

   Aug 31, 2025

   1h 58m
5. Elliot Berry - Retired but still leading by example

   Elliott Berry recently retired after nearly fifty years in the same job as a lawyer for New Hampshire Legal Assistance. I hesitate to even identify his job this way because the trail that Elliott Berry has blazed over those years has burnished a reputation and accomplishments across the country....

   Jun 27, 2025

   1h 58m
6. Competency Based Education: Fred Bramante Has a Dream for our Public Schools.

   Competency Based Education: Fred Bramante Has a Dream for our Public Schools. Public schools so exciting and effective that no one would want to send their children anywhere else.

   Mar 29, 2025

   1h 58m
7. 47% Rate Increase for Electric Transmission Proposed by Eversource, Kreis Warns.

   47% Rate Increase for Electric Transmission Proposed by Eversource, Kreis Warns. Here's what you can do: 47%. That is the increase that Everource is requesting before the PUC in their current rate case for the distribution part of their bill. But the folks at Eversource are doing their best to…

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   Mar 2, 2025

   1h 58m
8. 18 Months On: David Concannon looks back on the Oceangate Tragedy

   18 Months On: David Concannon looks back on the Oceangate Tragedy Scheduled to be aboard the Titan, a business emergency sidelined David. Soon he was immersed in the efforts to help save the submersible. In this podcast David looks back 18 months to the tragedy and adds to the historic record. .…

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   Feb 11, 2025

   1h 58m
9. Move Over Elon, Elliot S! Maggin Releases "LexCorp". A novel with what seems a competing narrative.

   Step aside Elon. Lex Luthor is here. He is badass and out to save the planet. It's an interesting contrast really. Elon Musk has his sights set on colonies on Mars and continuing to aggressively exploit the resources of earth in service to that, and other goals. On the other hand, the…

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   Dec 30, 2024

   1h 02m
10. Is the End in sight? Ira Shapiro

    Is the Fever Breaking? What lies ahead for the US Senate and Representative Democracy? In this podcast we catch up with Ira Shapiro one week out from the historic 2024 election. We take Ira's temperature on the upcoming election and discuss some of the challenges ahead for democracy. As is always...

    Oct 30, 2024

    1h 01m
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    Ep 67 Building Community and Empowering Lives - Dr. Michael Swack

    Building Community and Empowering Lives - Dr. Michael Swack Welcome to this joint production of The New Hampshire Secrets, Legends & Lore and The Radical Centrist Podcast. I'm your host Wayne King. It's not often that we feel compelled to do a joint podcast but there is something quite special...

    Oct 5, 2024

    1h 11m
12. Kent Nerburn : "Neither Wolf Nor Dog" 25th Anniversary. Journeys into the Native American Spirit

    Kent Nerburn occupies a prominent place in the pantheon of writers who observe and document native life in a world where real people meet the challenges of real life amid the simplistic mythologizing/pathologizing characterizations of Native people to which we all a drawn from time to time. Kent...

    Sep 3, 2024

    1h 20m
13. What We Can All Learn from Bayard Rustin a Conversation with Richard D. Kahlenberg

    If you have not yet seen the Netflix biopic "Rustin" a project of Barach and Michelle Obama, it is a movie well worth your time. The movie unveils the extraordinary genius and timeless persistence of Bayard Rustin who in a very short 2 month window of time pulled off the Magnum Opus of citizen...

    Jan 8, 2024

    50m
14. Kate Burgess - Nature Based Solutions to Climate & Biodiversity

    Kate Burgess is a Salazar Center partner and serves as the National Conference of Environmental Legislators NCEL’s Conservation Program Manager, where she enjoys collaborating with legislators on a variety of land, water, wildlife, and human issues. In this podcast she shares with us the new (yet...

    Oct 4, 2023

    34m
15. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - The Rebel Girl Continues to Educate, Incite and Inspire

    Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - The Rebel Girl Continues to Educate, Incite and Inspire Appropo of the current moment in our country, New Hampshire is currently embroiled in a legal battle at the intersection of history, free speech, labor law, and women's rights. Earlier in the year the state's...

    Aug 25, 2023

    50m
16. The Sixth Passenger: David Concannon and the OceanGate Tragedy

    The Sixth Passenger: David Concannon The OceanGate Titan Tragedy: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Since the June 18, 2023 disaster aboard the OceansGate Titan submersible, David Concannon, "The Sixth Passenger" on the ill-fated Titan submersible, who was scheduled to be the "Titanic whisperer"...

    Aug 22, 2023

    1h 58m
17. The War for the Roses: Making "that Geezer" Get 65 Rose Tattoos for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

    Don Kreis and his daughter Rose Keller make a formidable team. Whether as guests on a podcast or fighting the battle against Cystic Fibrosis. This year when Don turned 65 he announced that he would get 65 rose tattoos on his body if he could raise $65,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. But...

    Aug 19, 2023

    1h 16m
18. Tony Wagner - Reinventing Education in the Age of Innovation and AI

    Tony Wagner is one of the world's most respected and distinguished Educational thinkers. Where the names of John Dewey, John Holt, Piaget, Wigginton and others have been on the lips of prospective teachers and educators in the past, today, and in future years Tony Wagner’s name will be joined…

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    Aug 19, 2023

    1h 01m
19. Mark Blyth - Angrynomics and the Broad Ownership of Assets among Americans

    Mark Blyth is the Carl Sagan of economics. Making the topics that usually cause our eyes to glaze over understandable, and approachable, dare I say, even fun. In 2016 a Political Economist and the Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, within the Watson...

    Jul 11, 2023

    1h 07m
20. Chris Hedges: Hope's Two Daughters: Anger and Courage

    Chris Hedges is one of our greatest public intellectuals and a prodigious writer with 14 books, a Pulitzer Prize and other prestigious awards to his credit. All of these achievements have come over the course of a long and storied career as a war correspondent, NPR, Christian Science Monitor, and...

    May 13, 2023

    56m
21. Advanced Chemical Recycling - The Wave of the Future or More of the Same?

    A joint podcast with NH Secrets, Legends & Lore Tom Irwin, an attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation, joins me on this podcast along with Roger Stephenson of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Biologist Dr. Cynthia Walter of the NH Network, to discuss one of the newer technologies in...

    May 4, 2023

    1h 16m
22. Will the Betrayal Stand? An Update on the US Senate from Ira Shapiro

    Ira Shapiro is among the foremost experts on the United States Senate in the country - and a regular friend of the podcast. In this podcast Ira shares not only his observations on the current state of the Senate but also some ideas for fixing these problems. His latest book The Betrayal: How…

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    Apr 27, 2023

    51m
23. Gov Christine Todd Whitman and The Forward Party: Let Every Voice Be Heard

    It's probably a measure of how deeply divided politics has become that when Former Florida Republican Congressman David Jolly, former Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Joe Sestak, 2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and Governor Christine Todd Whitman joined forces to found the Forward...

    Mar 29, 2023

    1h 01m
24. Tom Wessels: Relocalizing Communities

    Tom is a terrestrial ecologist and professor emeritus at Antioch University New England where he founded the master’s degree program in Conservation Biology. His interest range from forest, desert, arctic, and alpine ecosystems, geomorphology, evolutionary ecology, complex systems science, to the...

    Mar 22, 2023

    58m
25. Nadine Hack - The Long Relay Race to Justice & the Human Elements of Change

    Nadine Hack is the CEO of CEO of Be Cause Global Consulting (https://www.because.net/ ); globally ranked one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders on Trustworthy Business Behavior. If I were to take the time to share with you the hundreds of accolades she has received during the course of her…

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    Mar 16, 2023

    1h 07m
26. Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism

    Daniel Webster was at the center of the great issues that defined his times. He was opposed to slavery, vehemently opposed the Indian Removal Act - that ended in the notorious and, illegal, Trail of Tears - with fellow congressman Davy Crockett; argued consistently for freedom of religion and the...

    Feb 28, 2023

    1h 18m
27. Who Owns the Wind - A Conversation with David McDermott Hughes

    David McDermott Hughes is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His book "Who Owns the Wind?: Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy," is one of the most important books of the past five years addressing the existential crisis of climate change; One of the...

    Feb 12, 2023

    1h 06m
28. The Carbon Cashback Initiative - Putting Climate Power in the Hands of Citizens

    John Gage, NH State Coordinator for the National Citizen's Climate Lobby, this episode's guest, makes the case that - while our individual efforts to reduce our carbon footprints are important - national and International change is only achieved through the power of all our efforts taken…

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    Dec 22, 2022

    45m
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    EP 48: New England School of the Arts TO OPEN IN FALL 2023 https://www.nesarts.org/

    New England School of the Arts TO OPEN IN FALL 2023 https://www.nesarts.org/ Open House Sunday Dec. 11th Jennifer Chambers Co-Founder of the School

    Nov 28, 2022

    33m
30. Making Your Voice Heard - The NH Network: Environment, Energy, Climate: Susan Richman and Patricia Martin

    Pat Martin campaigned hard for local NH state representatives who were committed to local action on climate change, but found her candidates on the losing side in those elections. Rather than waiting for the next election, and the uncertain promise that they held Pat has chosen a third path, she...

    Nov 17, 2022

    57m
31. Net Metering - Are Better Days Ahead? Don Kreis Speaks out Finally

    Don Kreis, New Hampshire's Consumer Advocate to the Public Utilities Commission, has in the past, shied away from wading into the briar patch of debate over Net Metering. In this episode Dr. Don shares a whimsical story about how net metering began as well as a brief primer on the technology and...

    Oct 22, 2022

    37m
32. Adam Finkel: In the Wake of Dobbs Is IVF the Next Target for the Morality Police?

    Dr. Adam Finkel Adam Finkel is a resident of Dalton, NH and Princeton, NJ. He served in leadership positions in both the Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations aimed at promulgating and evaluating risk-based regulations to protect the nation’s workers from chemical, radiological, and…

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    Oct 12, 2022

    50m
33. Congressman Dick Swett:: Civility, Vision, and Honor Matter

    Congressman Dick Swett:: Civility, Vision, and Honor Matter In an era where civility is a rare commodity, recalling the way that Dick Swett conducted himself as a US Congressman and later as an Ambassador to Denmark is a reminder that civility, humility and conscience are still honorable and -...

    Jul 1, 2022

    56m
34. Here Comes the Sun: Daniel Weeks, Revision Energy and the Fight for a Livable World

    Here Comes the Sun Daniel Weeks, Revision Energy and the Fight for a Livable World A 12th-generation Granite Stater, Dan Weeks is well steeped in New Hampshire history but he is also a citizen of the world. Dan left New Hampshire after high school to serve with AmeriCorps and attend Yale and…

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    Jun 27, 2022

    1h 03m
35. Walking Toward the Fire - Bob Dunfey Jr

    When Bob Dunfey first planned a trip to Ukraine to visit his son Rob he had no way of knowing that Russia would attack the peaceful country that had become the adopted home of his son. Neither did his son Rob who was on a ski trip when the attack began and was forced to flee directly to Warsaw,...

    May 17, 2022

    44m
36. Ambassador Jack Maresca: the Unknown Peace Agreement and the Ukraine crisis

    When a young Jack Maresca and his mother fled pre-war Europe (WWII) Jack's father was forced to remain behind because he was an Italian male. They would never see him again. Jack and his mother found warm and welcoming arms among the counselors and campers at Camps Onaway and Mowglis on Newfound...

    Mar 30, 2022

    1h 20m
37. Going Deeper - Chris Kriesen Releases New Game Designed to Deepen Relationships & Build Bridges

    When attorney Christopher Kriesen started his law firm Kalon in 2017 he wanted to found a different kind of law firm; one that was built around his vision of a better way to practice law, serve clients, and promote social good through entrepreneurship. Today, he leads the firm and serves as the...

    Mar 24, 2022

    36m
38. Tom Wessels: In the Footsteps of Abbey, Muir and Whitman

    Tom Wessels is a national treasure. In years to come I believe he will be remembered among the most important environmental and civil leaders of our generation. It's interesting that for someone for whom evolution, natural selection, and succession became the (early) hallmarks of his professional...

    Mar 17, 2022

    53m
39. Ukraine, Russia and Putin: Perspectives from a Park Bench in Vermont

    Though he is modest and self-effacing Michael Hutchings has forgotten more historical information than most so-called experts can remember. I caught up with him this week to get his perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its implications for all of us.

    Mar 11, 2022

    1h 04m
40. Plymouth State University and NH Electric Coop Launch Pilot Vehicle to Grid Project

    Will Electric Vehicles form an important Component of Energy Storage in the Future? Hosts Wayne King and Don Kreis - NH Consumer Advocate before the Public Utilities Commission - speak with Bill Johnstone, business development executive, and Brian Callnan, VP of Power and Resources Access at the…

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    Feb 21, 2022

    1h 04m
41. Chasing Eden - A Book of Seekers by Howard Mansfield

    Howard Mansfield is a prolific and talented writer residing in Hancock, New Hampshire. Chasing Eden is a book about seekers. Those in search of that special brand of “happiness” of which Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. The search can and does take many forms: religious,...

    Jan 19, 2022

    53m
42. Free Joseph - New Single coming Leave Me Alone

    Reggae musician Free Joseph has been planning for a US tour and the launch of his new CD "Believers and Non-Believers" and its been challenging trying to hit a moving target as he prepares. Nevertheless, the confusion over travel in the midst of a pandemic has not slowed his creative juices. He…

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    Dec 26, 2021

    17m
43. "Stories from the Rolodex" - A Conversation with Beverly Stoddart and Ann Welch

    Take a trip back into history with your kids, your students, your friends and neighbors with this fantastic collaboration between Author Beverly Stoddart and educator Ann Welch as they describe their collaboration built upon the extraordinary stories of journalists from United Press International...

    Dec 23, 2021

    48m
44. Own Your Work - Paul Popinchalk: Green Energy Pioneer

    While this podcast features a conversation with sustainable energy pioneer Paul Popinchalk, you cannot help but notice that every step along the way has been beside his life partner and wife Nancy, whom he mentions regularly. It's fair to say that the journey he has been on is nothing if not a...

    Dec 20, 2021

    1h 02m
45. Our Class - Their Song: A Conversation with Chris Hedges

    Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, war correspondent, and author of 14 books. His latest book, "Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison" chronicles his experience teaching in a NJ prison and is an intense, at times, heartbreaking and joyous journey. I spoke…

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    Nov 21, 2021

    44m
46. ​​Energy Innovation, Choice and Risk Management for a Sustainable Future

    Ever since his father took him on tours of a hydroelectric dam and a nuclear reactor as a young child Clifton Below has had an outsized interest in technology, electricity and energy from both a scientific perspective as well as a public policy one. As a result of this Clifton Below has become…

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    Nov 21, 2021

    1h 26m
47. Climate Change and Ocean Dynamics - The Tide is Shifting:

    Bill Boicourt has had a distinguished career, following his dream to be an Oceanographer. Today he is among the world's leading figures in a field that is at the center of the action in a world where Climate change has become the number one threat to the planet - or more accurately to the current...

    Oct 27, 2021

    1h 20m
48. Surviving The Coming Rate Shock

    Don Kreis is the Carl Sagan of public utility law and electric power generation and rate-setting. With a wry smile, a finely tuned sense of humor, and keen intellect, he makes topics that would normally cause our eyes to glaze over understandable and interesting. A combination of factors have...

    Oct 22, 2021

    1h 03m
49. Author Interview Ken Ellingwood: First to Fall

    An interview with author Ken Ellingwood who shares with us the story of a man for whom free speech meant enough to die, particularly in service to the cause of abolition. A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero - an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against…

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    Oct 10, 2021

    47m
50. Bramante Episode 17 Education In The Age Of COVID - 19: The Moment is now

    In the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic the public is understandably concerned about the notion of returning to school, particularly in light of a complete lack of national leadership and partisan treatment of the crisis by too many state leaders. Education reformer Fred Bramante offers his…

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    Oct 7, 2021

    1h 06m