Two days after winning the Democratic primary for Rhinebeck Town Supervisor with 76% of the vote, Debbie Hecht sits down with Emily Sachar to break down how she did it. She credits an old-fashioned ground game, what she calls an analog campaign, with campaign manager John Rossi at the wheel and nearly 2,000 voters reached one conversation at a time. Hecht talks about the stories she collected at the doors, from violet pickers to a woman whose family has been in town for 300 years, and how they shaped the way she wants to govern. She also gets candid about the parts the public never saw: the campaign finance flap she owned and fixed within the hour, the attacks that reached her daughter, and her decision to never punch back. It is a conversation about kindness as strength, holding your values under pressure, and what four months on the trail teaches you about your own town.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio

The Daily Catch's new arts and entertainment reporter Matt Moment joins Emily Sacker to preview Bard SummerScape 2026. He looks ahead to comedian James Austin Johnson at the Spiegeltent, a six-decade retrospective from dance pioneer Lucinda Childs, who turns 86 on opening night, and the world premiere of Suddenly Last Summer, a new opera by Courtney Bryan based on the Tennessee Williams play. Moment also previews his Upstate Art Weekend roundup and an upcoming piece on the painter Uman, whose survey opens at Bard's Hessel Museum.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio

Three Red Hook High School juniors heard there'd be no Pride celebration in their village this year, so they built one themselves. Ada, Harper, and Violet join Emily Sachar to talk about Red Hook Youth Pride, the day they pulled together that drew hundreds of people for a parade, live music, food, and community booths in the Village municipal lot. They get into the parts nobody warns teenagers about, like wrangling event insurance without an organization to back them, partnering with the local community center, and handing off the music to a friend who runs Red Hook DIY. They also talk about what it felt like to watch a plan they'd scribbled on paper turn into a crowd, why Pride still matters in a small town, and what they'd say to any adult who underestimates what high schoolers can get done.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio