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.
Awakening?
12/5/24: Representative Jim McGovern to progressives: we can’t pull down the shades, we must continue the struggle. Rev Andrea Ayvazian on what progressive Christian pastors can do. Immigration Atty Aleksandra Peryeva bracing for attacks on immigrants. Ruth Griggs w/ drummer/educator Richie Barshay.
Revolutionary
12/4/24: Continuing the Political Revolution w/ Susan Triolo & David Greenberg. Healing Across the Divides w/ Norbert Goldfield & Israeli-Gaza…
Begging Your Pardon
12/3/24: Atty John Pucci: Hunter Biden & the pardon power. Sci-tech Café: MHC MHC Prof, Kerstin Nordstrom & UMass Prof Alissa Nolden: not impossible burgers. Sen Paul Mark: Trump v. Massachusetts? Amherst Media’s Vira Douangmany & Yanna Ok w/ Jacqueline Wallace, Amherst Area Gospel Choir – a cappella in studio!
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.
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.
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.
