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 Friends 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), DA David Sullivan, Writers Block (Megan Zinn), Science and Sensibility (Brian Adams), Righting Wrongs (ACLUM Carol Rose), State Senators Comerford & Mark, Representatives Sabadosa, 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.
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.
Democracy in Peril?
Democracy in Peril?
2/12/26: Dr Adam Barsouk — Outsmarting Cancer, Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention,
Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy for a book talk with David Daley, interviewed by EIPAD Director, Chris Appy—Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
UMass Professor Epstein—Fed Reserve Investigation, Jobs Report, and Independence
Buz and Dan—Incivility in Congress, our AI Future
“Music Alone Shall Live”
2/11/26
“Music Alone Shall Live”
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer —HOUSING, UMass Students & ICE
Chris Freeman – Iron Horse—”Music Alone Shall Live”
George Kahout — Friends of Northampton Trail & Riding Down Main street
Larry Hott—Larry’s got the Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond, & animation not just for Kids
Fighting for Change
Fighting for Change 2.10.26
Pat Duffy—5th Hampden Rep—Breaking News: AI regulation, Housing, & Spr. Museum
Sheryl L. Stanton, Superintendent, Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional School Districts—Fighting for Rural Aid Funding!
Charles Walker-Hoover & Alannah Brunt, UMass, The Beautiful Struggle, on 2/13 (NAACP Week 2026)
Duke Goldman—Will not miss the Super Bowl end, Spring Training,
Beginning Warmth, Followed by ICE and Icy
2/9/26: Megan Zinn w/ Broadside’s Roz Kreshak-Hayden: books to read & indies to support. Writers Block w/John Sayles’s on “Crucible,” Henry Ford, industrial policy & his antisemitism. Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Bad Bunny, schools, MTA negotiations, icy roads, state aid, & financial modernization. John Bonifaz, Pres & Founder of Free Speech for People: prosecuting ICE agents, the AG, DAs, & the police.
