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.
The Breath and Breadth of Life
6/4/25: DA David Sullivan: ICE arrests here & Deerfield Academy’s sex abuse victims. Serious Play Director Sheryl Stoodley, John Feffer (ISP) & actor David Keohane: “Lungs.” Brian Adams w/ Smith Coll astronomer Kimberly Ward-Duong: life on other planets. Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott & Lous Alvarez: “American Tongues” & politics.
ReMarkable
6/3/25: Sen Paul Mark: his invitation from Pres Trump. James Kitchen: his HUGE sculpture, from recycled 19th century metal girders & tools, here. Jade Jump & Nate Clifford, owners of Cornucopia: moving on. Harley Erdman, Eric Sawyer & Barry Werth: “The Garden of Martyrs” & “The Scarlet Professor” at Historic Northampton.
Resistance and Resilience
6/2/2025: Nick Mottern & Ruth Moushabeck: Saturday’s Concert for the Children of Gaza. Megan Zinn w/ Richard Russo: “Life and Art.” Sen Jo Comerford: fighting back against SNAP & Medicaid cuts. Nhmptn Mayor GL Sciarra: school funding & federal cuts & uplifting graduations.
Life and Lives
5/30/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Massachusetts legislation to save K-12 and higher ed. Hon. Mary Lou Rup & Ruth Griggs: celebrating Leah Kunkel’s life, her music and advocacy. Elizabeth Minnich: “The Evil of Banality….” on Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Trump and ourselves
30+Years Fights for Justice
5/29/25 Jenny Fleming Ives: her 33 yrs as a reproductive health specialist at Tapestry Health — also CEO Mavis Nimoh on budget cuts. Gnfld City Counsel Pres Lora Wondoloski: funding the schools. Ct River Conservancy’s Kathy Urffer & Nina Gordon-Kirsch: the ongoing fight over a 30-50 yr license renewals for energy projects on the river. John Anz w/ multi-genre, multi-instrumentalist Susan Werner—at the Parlor Room.
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.”
