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.
Strokes of Genius
5/28/25: Larry Hott reviews “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise” & “What Happened, Miss Simone?” CDH Chief of Emerg Medicine Dr. Alberto Perez & EMS Stroke Coordinator Ben Hogan: stroke awareness. Brian Adams w/ Politico correspondent Brian Dabbs: Trump v renewable energy. Musicians Johnny Joelson, Ginny Elkin & Dan Zukergood performing LIVE in studio & at the Iron Horse June 1.
Flashes of Hot and Cold
5/27/25: Political consultant Josh Silver: Trump’s poll numbers going up. Cancer Connection Ex Dir Chelsea Kline: the Grateful Bed Tour. Sci-Tech Café Dir & MHC Prof Kerstin Nordstrom w/ UMass anthropologist Lynnette Leidy Sievert: menopausal hot flashes. Duke Goldman: the role of character in sports & Hall of Fame voting.
Cosmic Thoughts & Labors of Love
5/23/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ labor expert Eric Blanc: “We are the Union…” today’s rank & file leadership. Rep Mindy Domb: the fabulous, the horrible and the future. You can see the cosmos this weekend! with Arunah Hill’s Ed Faits. Adam Hinds on Trump’s bill in the US Senate. Donnabelle Casis w/ Spfld Museum ‘s Elizabeth Kapp: “Witch Panic! Massachusetts before Salem.”
Dignity
5/22/25: JM Sorrell: Death with Dignity & legislation pending in Mass. Holyoke Housing Auth Ex Dir Matt Mainville & Dev Dir Sarah Meier-Zimbler: new affordable houses for sale. Rev Carole Bull: facing death, embracing life, reading poetry. Ruth Griggs w/ David Picchi, Director of “Jazz in July,” on inspiration, improvisation, master classes & UMass.
The Rights of Spring
5/21/25: Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, Ex Dir, Council on American-Islamic MA: Islamophobia here. ACLU MA Ex Dir Carol Rose: fighting Trump in court. Brian Adams w/ Helen Kahn from Grow Food Nhmpton & Ryan Voiland of Red Fire Farm: fed cuts to food & farms. Larry Hott w/ Wes DeShano of MA Humanities: Are Trump’s cuts-fatal? & “The Speech is the Star.”
Battles
5/20/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: a good state budget, a devastating federal one. NHS teacher Jeromie Whalen: his friend Mahmoud Khalil still in immigration detention. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Dan Torres – for the birds! Hampshire Prof Michael Klare: Israel, Gaza, Russia, Ukraine, India, Pakistan, NATO, & also, Trump’s successes?
The Kids Are Amazing
5/19/25: N’hmpt Art Council’s Steve Sanderson w/ student performer—live in studio: the Bow Bow Bash. Megan Zinn w/ New Yorker cartoonist & author Harry Bliss: “You Can Never Die.” Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: a secret sauce for a sustainable budget? Ron Fitzsimmons, Ex Dir of Alice’s Kids, and Jo Newman on Alice’s Kids. https://www.aliceskids.org
Steal from the Poor; Give to the Rich
5/16/25: MTA Pres Max Page: federal cuts v our commonwealth. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: education & health care. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: SCOTUS, birthright citizenship & autocracy. Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra’s Joe Ricker, Bob Fishman, & Rich Buckman: the Bombyx show. DNA’s Kevin McAllister: tomorrow’s BIG clean-up
Rifts and Riffs
5/15/25: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: RFK Jr v vaccines. Gazette & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: the headlines today & tomorrow. Rabbi David Seidenberg: Gaza, genocide, Trump & antisemitism. Ruth Griggs w/ jazz great, trumpeter & vocalist, Benny Benack III: exquisite family harmony & his upcoming Drake gig.
“Incandescent with Life”
5/14/25: Amherst Council Pres Lynn Griesemer: schools at fiscal cliff? alternatives to policing. Author Larry Tye: “The Jazzmen: How Ellington, Armstrong & Basie Transformed America.” Brian Adams w/ author & naturalist Sy Montgomery: “The Soul of the Octopus.” Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott, Louis Alvarez & Paul Stekler.
