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.
Paint the Town Red. And Blue.
6/20/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Gov Healey retracts anti-Fair Share comments. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the federal budget v state obligations. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: political violence, social security & No Kings. FCCPR’s Susan Triolo: Tristate Overpasses for Democracy & other acts of resistance. Donnabelle Casis w/ Common Murals Ex Dir Britt Ruhe: “Paint the Town.”
News Directions
6/19/25: Transgender SCOTUS decision with attys Bill & Buz. Talking Red Sox with sportscaster Scott Coen. Daily Hampshire Gazette Managing Editor Chad Cain the news fit to print. Rabbi David Seidenberg: Israel/Iran, Gaza, & Juneteenth. Ruth Griggs w/ cellist Jeremy Harman: New Directions Cello Fest at Bombyx.
Elevating Conversations
6/18/25: Al Simon & Meg Robbins of Northampton’s Support Our Schools: the volume & tone of debates over schools. Silverthorne Theater’s Bd Pres Ezekiel Baskin, director Gina Kaufmann & actor Sabine Denise Jacques: “The Amateurs” & “Comeuppance.” Brian Adams w/ UMass Dr Zoe Getman-Pickering & Prof Matt Lackner: ELEVATE’s mission -renewable energy- & federal funding rescinded. Cool Films w/ Larry Hott; “Deaf President Now” and “Through Deaf Eyes.”
Fighting to Live
6/17/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: Minnesota, Farmworkers, Cannabis Comm. David Leaf, author of “SMiLE: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Brian Wilson.” Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Matteo Pangallo of Valley Players on “A Walk in the Woods.” ED Marianne Winters of Safe Passage on their suit to protect victims of dom viol from Trump threat to funding.
So Many Fights
Atty Maya McCann, co-leader of Fairness for Farmworkers Coalition: the subminimum wage. Hampshire Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Securities Studies, Michael Klare: the Israel-Iran War. Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: “No Kings” protest & antisemitism in the schools. Peace Development Fund’s Lora Wondolowski & Jessa McCormack w/ Seeing Rainbow’s Nuri.
Most Unkindest Cuts of All
6/13/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ UMass Profs Krista Harper & Michael Ash: critical grants gutted. Founder Andrew Lawrence w/ guitarists Joscho Stephan, & Sven Jungbeck on DJANGO IN JUNE! Prof Salman Hameed: cuts to NASA budget threaten science. Young Feminist Party’s Marisol Bonifaz & activist Alice Jenkins on Saturday’s NO KINGS Rally.
Young People
6/12/25: Journalist Craig Johnson: “How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism.” Ruth Griggs w/ Koan Collective musicians Ian Behrstock & Jahain Cooper-Monize. Rep. Natalie Blais: HIP, SNAP, POTpourri, Pride, & students’ testimony. EHS educators Kelley Brown & Jeff Sealander, w/ students Oscar, Leia & Michael – a cross-generational book club: founding fathers & “The Pursuit of Happiness.”
Untangling Webs
6/11/25: Amherst Council Pres Lynn Griesemer: ICE in Amherst, school budgets, Juneteenth. Alex Osterman & Victoria Worth: the ACLU in Ashfield. Filmmakers Larry Hott, Andy Kolker & Paul Stekler: political films—past present & is there a future? GCC science prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Ph D candidate neuroethologist & Jumping Spider expert, Alex Winsor.
Teaching
6/10/25: Northampton Ed Foundation’s Dale Melcher & Joy Hermansen: the upcoming Showcase. Ed Collab’s Todd Gazda w/ Hadley Super & MA Assoc School Super Ex Comm mem Anne McKenzie: one tough job. Smith Coll Prof Carrie Baker w/ PVPA’s Gary Hugget & his former, now Smith Coll, student Talia Villalobos-Sharone: saving DEI. Duke Goldman: THE AMAZING Catch, Yankees & Sox.
Protest: it’s not rebellion, it’s patriotism!
6/9/25: Bill and Buz on Trump’s authoritarianism and the need to resist it. Megan Zinn w/ Carolyn Zaikowski, new poet laureate of Easthampton. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in spite of Gov Newsom’s condemnation as the Guard’s Commander-in-Chief. UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz outlines local Juneteenth commemorations.
