Podcasts: Bill Newman
Bill Newman
The Bill Newman Show. Weekdays at 9AM. Join Bill & Monte Belmonte as they talk with news-makers, elected officials, authors, artists, poets, and ‘fish wrap’ about the day’s headlines.
Recent guests include authors Senator Elizabeth Warren (Persist); Larry Tye (Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy); Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain); Chuck Collins (The Wealth Hoarders and Born on Third Base).
An In Your Face Comedy Quiz
1/21: Matt Parker, author of “Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World;” then, the first monthly Comedy Quiz of 2020 – a face-off between Monte Belmonte and Kelsey Flynn –and it’s a family affair.
Just Mercy
1/17: Buz Eisenberg and Bill Newman discuss the movie Just Mercy and the death penalty case they litigated with Bryan Stevenson; Mass. Teachers Assn. Veep Max Page; ArtBeat with Pasqualina Azzarello and Jason Montgomery.
Why Joe Kennedy Wants To Be Your Senator Now
1/16: Congressman Joe Kennedy on his race against Sen. Ed Markey; then Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David (“The Reverend and the Rabbi”), Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov (hosts of “Black in the Valley”) and Jeff Napolitano and Miranda Groux, from the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, — on Martin Luther King and the commemorations in his honor in the Valley.
Not This Kind of Over-Ride
1/15: Elizabeth Matos, Exec. Dir. of Prisoners’ Legal Services -the fight today in the legislature; Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz on the proposed Prop 2 ½ override; Natalia Munoz on the earthquakes in Puerto Rico.
We’re Not Sports Talk Radio (We Thought)
1/14: What’s next for the Red Sox and manager Alex Cora given the scandal he was in the middle of – we’re “Talkin’ Baseball” with SABR-star Duke Goldman and former minor leaguer and Atlanta Braves batboy Buz Eisenberg.
The Women’s March Returns!
1/13: Rachel Maiore, Director the Western Massachusetts Women’s March; Black in the Valley with segment hosts Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Smith-Crooks and Horace Small, founder and Executive Director, Union of Minority Neighborhoods.
Science & Religion & A Science Fiction Based Religion
1/2: Sands Hall, author of “Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology;” then, the Reverend and the Astronomer—Rev. Peter Ives and Smith College astronomy prof., James Lowenthal,
on the origins of this universe-there could well be others- and the place of faith.
The Last Show (of The Decade)
12/31: Quizzing Mr. Belmonte and Dan; this year’s final Fishwrap; we preview First Night with Steve Sanderson, and Grammy Award-winning amazing musician, Jon Carroll, is live with us in the studio.
Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa and what Did ‘The Irishman’ Get Wrong?
12/30: Jack Goldsmith, author of “In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth;” then Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz on the proposed Prop 2 1/2 override.
