Angles with John Richmond

Angles with John Richmond is built around long-form conversations with people shaping Buffalo’s professional and civic life. The show is plainspoken and energetic. Its curiosity tends to start with a guest’s path, then move toward the decisions, habits, and pressures behind that path. In the Charlie Specht episode, investigative journalism is treated as craft and public service. The conversation gets into tips, documentation, records, legal protection, Substack, and the ongoing question of what local readers want covered. That gives the show a procedural edge. It is not only interested in the finished story, but in how a reporter keeps track of calls, sources, city hall, the diocese, and hard-to-search court information. The Del Reid conversation shifts the center of gravity to sports culture. Bills Mafia is framed less as a slogan than as a movement with community meaning. The episode connects fan identity, rivalries, Super Bowl hunger, Josh Allen confidence, charitable energy, and the work of 26 Shirts for Buffalo families. It is loose, local, and recognizably conversational. The Colleen Heidinger episode brings the show into startup leadership and economic development. Her work with 43North opens a discussion about returning to Buffalo, building the city, founder motivation, scaling companies, leadership fit, and the difference between early teams and larger organizations. A lighter thread about a yoga studio and rapid-fire Buffalo questions keeps the conversation from becoming only business theory. Across these episodes, the show favors guests with a visible public footprint. It likes ambition, but it is most compelling when ambition is tied to community, accountability, or place. The host’s questions often compare a guest’s world to law firm growth, local institutions, or Buffalo sports culture, which gives the conversations a lived-in regional feel. Angles with John Richmond works best as a map of Buffalo through its operators, storytellers, advocates, and die-hard believers. It is career audio with civic memory. It is also proudly local without sounding closed off to listeners beyond Buffalo.