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.
Hyperlocal
Hyperlocal
4/24/26: (Co-host Buz Eisenberg):
MTA Pres Max Page: bell to bell cell phone bans & controlling exploitive social media.
Rep Mindy Domb: a violent death at UMass & Hampshire College’s closing.
UMass Professor of Chinese History & Guggenheim Fellow (& NHS grad) Stephen Platt.
Fishwrap on Ruth Suyenaga’s powerful DHG and Recorder piece on ICE and internment camps.
Donnabelle Casis’ ArtBeat: the Easthampton Film Festival.
“All Are Interested in All”
“All Are Interested in All”
4/23/26: Local historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider: worker coops in Florence the 1840s and now.
ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: Trump v. the fourth estate.
Rev Carole Bull: Trump as Jesus & “The Cloud of the Unknowing.”
All that Jazz: John Anz with trumpeter and composer Ralph Alessi.
Life, Death & Sports
Life, Death & Sports
4/22/26 (co-host Brian Adams):
Alison Keller, end-of-life doula.
Karen Miller, Cooley Dick & VNA Hospice Manager: National Health Care Decisions Month.
Forbes Library’s Priya Charry & Smith College journalism prof Naila Moreira: “Ecological and Climate Fiction for All Generations.”
Smith Prof Erica Tibbetts: Sport for Social Change.
Indivisible?
Indivisible?
4/21/26 (co-host Carrie Baker): Ehmptn Mayor Salem Derby: the Override & the World Cup.
Rob Weir: sports celebrities not necessarily legends.
The Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy: meteorological messiness-come play.
Deb Klemer, Nhmptn City Council VP: founding Indivisible -Northampton & misogyny in politics.
Caring About Others & Killing Your Darlings
Caring About Others & Killing Your Darlings
4/20/26: Dr. Anne Markes, executive director of Well on Their Way, medical outreach in northern Uganda
Writers Block w/ Megan Zinn: Kate Senecal creator and co-host of Kill Your Darlings reading series at Darlings Bar in Easthampton
Lindsi Sekula, executive director of the Easthampton Housing Authority, taking on a new position
Prof. Michael Klare on Iran, energy prices, and the use of AI for war.
Hampshire Closes & What Lives
Hampshire Closes & What Lives
4/17/26: Jacqueline Hayden (Hamp Coll prof) & Lilly Hayden Daiber (Hampshire Coll alum): mourning the closing & celebrating what lives on.
Lindsay Sabadosa: Hampshire Coll, ed funding & tough choices.
Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Hampshire students, unhinged Trump, the War & murder.
Larry Hott: the Movement Voter Project.
ArtBeat w/ Kahli Hernandez & Imo Imeh: revolutionary art.
Ticks & Stars
Ticks & Stars
4/16/26: Immunologist Dr Jonathan Bayuk: flu, measles, covid, Lyme, EEE & West Nile.
“Young@Heart Meets Y@H NYC:” local stars Bob Cilman & Sonya Nieto w/ NYC stars Evette Mercedes, Patrick McCarthy & Wayne Brockman.
MTA Pres Max Page: the House budget just dropped.
“An All-Star Klezmer Evening” w/ Jake Shulman-Ment & Ira Temple.
Gld Recorder & DHG Ex Ed Dan Crowley: breaking news, overrides & Hampshire Coll closing.
A Taxing Show
A Taxing Show
4/15/26: Bill & Brian on Hampshire College Closing after 56 years – sad ending
Reader to Reader w/ David Mazor: Saturday’s book drive for young readers—can you help?
Northampton attorneys David Hoose & Ryan Shiff: the Anthony Baye arson case & reasons for release.
ServiceNet’s Shawn Robinson & Maribeth Ritchie: amazing farms & farming.
Larry Hott w/ Issac Solotaroff:”Born to Bowl” — funny and fantastic.
Questions
Questions
4/14/26: Rep Patricia Duffy: bell-to- bell school cell-phone bans? & data privacy.
Hadley School Super Anne McKenzie: experience with cell phones? & AI.
“Be Seriously Scared” w/ Chris Appy, Founder, Ellsberg Initiative for Peace & Democracy, Larry J. Tish & Michael Dwyer: fun with nukes?
Duke Goldman: how about those Sox? a/k/a a Twins killing.
Sharp Attitudes
Sharp Attitudes
4/13/26: Eric Nakajima, Holyoke’s Planning & Econ Dev Dir: Gateways.
Author Jennifer Acker on “Surrender,” Tuesday at the Odyssey.
Dr. Jane Fleishman: elders & intimate relationships & dating.
S#arp Attitude-THE UMass women’s a cappella group-LIVE in the studio: the Manna event.
