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.  

Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra

Remembering & Projecting

12/2/24: Sen Jo Comerford: state revenue, federal $ for Mass. & a cigarette ban? Hamp Mayor GL Sciarra: City Hall closed, the Rail Trail open & the budget. Ruth Griggs, Buz & Bill remember Leah Kunkel. Larry Hott “Join or Die.” Megan Zinn w/ Megan Tady, author of “Bluebird Day.”

Giving Thanks & Love

11/27/24: Immigration attys Claudia Quintero & Maya McCann w/ PV Workers Ctr Dir Claudia Rosales: Fairness for Farmworkers. Sex educator Jane Fleishman w/ Kate & Julie McGondel: the women-loving-women dating service “Willow.” Brian Adams w/ Trustees of Reservations ecologist Julie Richburg CDH’s Gail Orzechowski & Jennifer Margolis: “Trees of Love.”

Speak Out!

11/26/24: Monte: The March for the Food Bank! Josh Silver on post-election PTSD. Ed Orzechowski: “Becoming Darlene: Belchertown Patient #4952.” Duke Goldman: speak out against MAGA’s politicization of sports & obsession with transgender athletes. Larry Spotted Crow Mann: Thanksgiving? Nat’l Day of Mourning.

Lisa Wong, Tim Nelson, Paul Bockelman

March for the Food Bank & Walking Out

11/25/24: Gfld City Councilor Marianne Bullock: mass resignations at city hall. Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/ Ayanna Crawford: Kwanzaa & Thanksgiving/ Day of Mourning. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Trump & risk for Sanctuary Cities. Megan Zinn & local author Sarah Sawyer: “The Undercurrent.”

Power

11/22/24: Dangerous recess appts. MTA Pres Max Page: strikes, no family medical leave & subminimum wage. Donnabelle Casis w/ Jason Montgomery, 50 Arrow Gallery: “Words” & art. Jillian Morgan: March for the Food Bank. Local human rts atty Laura Pitter: coming assault on rts.

John Anz and Kris Allen

Politics & All That Jazz

11/21/24: Dan Crowley, Ex Ed, Daily Hampshire Gazette & Gfld Recorder. Michael McSherry, Sr. Pastor, Edwards Church; Ex Dir ACLU of Mass: fighting back; “All that Jazz” with Jon Anz & saxophonist Kris Allen.

Live from Northampton, It’s Young @ Heart

11/20/24: Young@Heart: Maine Media; Yellowstone adventures; VFR. Pollution.

Smith College Professor Carrie Baker

Madam President? Madam President.

11/19/24 Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton with Professor Carrie Baker: Feminist Futures. Political consultant Josh Silver: Harris’ campaign – lessons & what now? Gfld Recorder reporter Anthony Cammalleri: help and hurt for Haitian immigrants at the Days Inn in Gfld. The Comedy Quiz, on rom-coms, w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, Lynn Curry & Jess Tyler.

What Happened? What’s Happening?

11/18/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: the unhoused in her city & today’s acute fire danger. Atty Jon Bonifaz, Pres, Free Speech for People: Trump’s election & his AG, Defense, & HHS (recess?) appointments. Smith Prof of Govt & election expert Marc Lendler: What Just Happened & Why? Megan Zinn w/ Lynda Cohen Loigman on “The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern.”

John Cartledge

Northampton Police Chief John D. Cartledge

11/15/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on House decisions: independent audit of the House, the Climate & Econ Devel bills. MTA Max Page on what will happen after the vote to remove MCAS as grad req’t. Donnabelle Casis w/ Holyoke artist & PULP owner Dean Brown on upcoming exhibit. Northampton Police Chief John Cartledge. CEO Adam Hinds of Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate on the US Senate’s Advise & Consent role.

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