The Weekly Word

New Mexico In Depth executive director Trip Jennings joined the podcast to talk about NM In Depth and the current work they are doing. We spoke about the behavioral health audit and the resulting suspension of funding to behavioral health providers. We also briefly touched on some of the work NM In Depth is doing reporting on pueblos.

Hosts Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach make the triumphant return to the podcast with Albuquerque poet laureate Hakim Bellamy. Bellamy explains what a poet laureate is, tells us how he ended up in Albuquerque and reads a couple of poems.

Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach left the confines of podcasting to take to the airwaves. The hosts filled in for Julia Goldberg while she was on vacation. The topics included medical marijuana, the latest on public records involving Gov. Susana Martinez and other topics in New Mexico news and politics.

The Weekly Word takes a step back from politics and into the world of mixed martial arts, or MMA. We speak to amateur fighter Andrew Tenneson, who trains at legendary Jackson's Gym in MMA. We speak to Tenneson about his thoughts on MMA, his career goals and what he says about the criticism of MMA.

After a two-week break, the Weekly Word is back with an entire podcast devoted to recapping the "emailgate" scandals. Hosts Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach were joined by Justin Horwath to sort through what happened int he myriad of scandals that have come out of the allegedly intercepted emails.

Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach return from some technical difficulties to talk with Laura Paskus about her story on changes to copper mining rules related to groundwater contamination and a little bit about uranium mining. Music is "Another Girl" by duckett and "I Dunno" by Grapes, used with the Creative Commons license.

Republican Aaron Henry Diaz talks about his past in politics and the liberty movement in the Republican Party of New Mexico with hosts Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach.

Joey Peters sat down with Santa Fe mayor David Coss after he announced he would not seek another term in office and with Santa Fe city councilor Patti Bushee, who is considering a run to take over for Coss.

Frequent guest Peter St. Cyr came on the show to talk about the offensive statements by Republican Party of Bernalillo County executive director Steve Kush -- calling a woman who supported a minimum wage increase a "radial bitch" on his social media. St. Cyr also spoke about his "Nuts to Butts" cover story that has caused a lot of attention. Justin Horwath filled in for Matthew Reichbach next to Joey Peters.

Hosts Matthew Reichbach and Joey Peters talked about beer this week. Matthew talked to Chris Jackson of New Mexico Darkside Brew Crew about the options in the state and then Joey talked about the effect of tax breaks on the breweres in New Mexico.

Hosts Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach welcome Elaine Baumgartel from KUNM to the studio to discuss same-sex marriage in New Mexico. Elaine hosts Morning Edition and the KUNM Call-In show -- a few weeks ago, Elaine hosted a call-in show about same-sex marriage.

Hosts Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach talk about the combined reporting provision of the omnibus tax bill -- and how Wal-Mart may avoid paying the new taxes. SFR staff writer Justin Horwath spoke about New Mexico Prosperity, a 501(c)4 with an early document that advocated helping Democrats in a partisan fashion.

Hosts Matthew Reichbach and Joey Peters are joined by independent journalists Sterling Fluharty and Andy Lyman to discuss what just happened at the legislative session -- specifically the final hour where a huge tax bill was forced through.

Live from the Roundhouse, hosts Joey Peters of the Santa Fe Reporter and Matthew Reichbach of NM Telegram had SFR's Sterling Fluharty and New Mexico PBS' Matt Grubs on to discuss a controversial piece of legislation that seeks to exempt legislators from the Inspection of Public Records Act.

Joey Peters and Matthew Reichbach were joined by State Fair Commissioner Charlotte Rode, who continued her push for more openness int he bidding process for contracts related to the Downs at Albuquerque. Rode explains what happened and why she thinks it was wrong.

Hosts Matthew Reichbach and Joey Peters speak to Emily Kaltenbach, the state director of the Drug Policy Alliance in New Mexico, about marijuana legislation, legislation to help provide funding for an anti-overdose bill. Then Peters talks about the latest in the Santa Fe Reporter troubles with the governor's office when it comes to receiving public information from private emails.

Coco J. Harris from Cocoposts and El Grito joined Matthew Reichbach and Joey Peters to talk about water issues in the state -- mostly about legislation in front of the state legislature in the "sleeper issue" of the session.