Podcasts: Talk The Talk
Talk The Talk
Weekdays 8:00 -10:00 a.m. EST; rebroadcast 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST
Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg host newsmakers, activists, authors, & artists – including:
Mayors Monday(Northampton, Holyoke, Easthampton) & Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman, Salman Hameed’s Universe, the Comedy Quiz, Black In the Valley (Professor Amilcar Shabazz) Political Gold (Josh Silver), Our House (Congressman Jim McGovern), Crime & Punishment (John Pucci), DA David Sullivan, Writers Block (Megan Zinn), Science and Sensibility (Brian Adams), Community Action (Clare Higgins), Righting Wrongs (ACLUM Carol Rose), State Senators Comerford & Mark, Representatives Sabadosa, Blais, Duffy, & Domb, ArtBeat (Donnabelle Casis), Cool Films (Larry Hott), Feminist Futures (Carrie Baker), Talkin’ Baseball & Fair Play (Duke Goldman), Your State U (MTA Pres. Max Page) All That Jazz (Ruth Griggs & John Anz), Exec. Editor, DHG & Gfld Recorder, Dan Crowley.
As Public as Possible
2.27 As Public as Possible
Your State U w/ Max Page & Prof & Author David Backer “As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools”
Buz – The Massachusetts Government’s Response To ICE
Buz & Andy On Trump & USA Hockey
Umass Asst Prof & Research Astronomer Jorge Zavala – Missing Link In Galaxy Evolution
Art Beat: Amanda Herman Of The Umass Contemporary Arts Museum – 50 Year Anniv – w/Sally Curcio & Alana Casey
No Kings
2.26 No Kings
Buz and Bill on GCC Senior Symposia—State Power
ACLU of Mass.’s Carol Rose-Mass law. ICE, & No Kings Day
Rabbah Riqi- Purim celebration
All That Jazz: John Anz w Nick Hempton upcoming show at Tanglewood
The Heat is On
2.25.26 The Heat is On
Winter Hoopla (Shelbourne Falls) this weekend: Laura Iveson, Jane Wegscheider
Elizabeth Sacktor—Shroudmakers, Undertakers, and hairworkers
Mimi Kaplan & Eric Broadbent: Heat Pumps & Electrifying Massachusetts
Larry Hott & Anthony Kaufman “Don’t Panic” Doc Filmmaking
Running to Win
2/24 Running to Win
Professor Chris Appy & Chris Small—UMass lecture: From Amazon to Gaza: Organizing, Solidarity, and Civic Courage
MHC Professor Kerstin Nordstrom & Smith College Prof. Sarah Mazda—Local volcanoes– Mount Holyoke RANGE!
Lora Wondolowski—City Council of Greenfield & Running for State Rep 1st Franklin County
Fair Play—Duke on Winter Olympics & Women Athletes in sports
Money & Life
2/20: Money & Life Max Page & Riley Hernandez, president of the Springfield Education Association: Healthcare and school funding Lindsay Sabadosa:…
Local Problems, Local Solutions
2.19 Local Problems, Local Solutions
UMass Prof. & PERI co-director Michael Ash—100 WORST polluters list
Exe. Dir. Dan Crowley–Local Sports & Local Journalism
All That Jazz w/ Ruth Griggs & Jazz Guitarist Peter Bernstein comin’ to Drake (in Amherst) March 7th
Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby—Waste treatment, Housing, & WE THE PEOPLE need $$$
Flippin’ the House
2/18/26: Flippin’ the House
Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman–School Budgets: The Good and Bad.
Dr. David Gottsegen–Author of Mending the Body with the Mind
Lundy Bancroft & Sarah Matthews Western Mass Rights of Nature
Paul Spector—Friday Action Group; Flipping the House
Have Faith
2/17 Have Faith
7th Hampden State Rep. Aaron L. Saunders—Two AI bills & ICE legislation on Beacon Hill
Smith Prof. Carrie Baker & Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian- Reclaiming faith in trying times.
Happier Valley Comedy Quiz — Maddy Benjamin, Micaela Foster, Scott Braidman, Prof. Carrie Baker on Wizards (& dracula, cows, and bullets)
Feminist Future segment with Carrie Baker & Executive Director Amanda Sanderson of Greenfield based Resilience Center of Franklin County on resources and advocacy for survivors.
What’s Cooking?
What’s Cooking?
2/16: Elyse Moore –“Jolly Good Time in the Kitchen” GCC Senior Symposia Wednesday, 2/18, at 2pm
Writers’ Block w/ Megan Zinn & acclaimed Lauren Groff about her new book Brawler
MHC Kerstin N. Nordstrom with MHC Astronomy Prof. Ben Boatwright — Colonizing Mars? Really?
Mandi Jo Henneke — Amherst Town Council president on budgets, schools, housing, and charter change.
The Endgame
2.13.26—The Endgame
Max Page and Peter Enrich-Raise Up Mass Coalition on Ballot Initiatives $7 or 8 billion in cuts
John Feffer and John Berkowitz—Ukraine War End game?
Al Williams of Northampton Open Media (NOM) & Jeff Mastroianni – Executive Director (E-Media)-YouTube Censorship & Local Media Survival.
Donnabelle Casis—JooYoung Choi, AstroFuturist artist, “Quantum Soup Surfer,” at Amherst College Mead Museum.
