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.
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.”
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.
Ill Omens
11/14/24: Our Fishwrap:Trump’s Atty Gen nominee, Matt Gaetz. Eric Reeves: starvation displacement & death in Sudan. Rabbi & Justice Consultant Debra Kolodny on wars in the Middle East. Immigration attorney Dan Berger: Trump’s past and future immigrant policies. Ruth Griggs w totally fab trumpeter Josh Bruneau: bebop & flugelhorns & LIVE tonight here.
Anxious?
11/13/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: the end of school receivership urban blight, & the election. Filmmaker Larry Hott: “ACLU: A History” & “The Bibi (Netanyahu) Files.” Brian Adams w/ climate therapist Sadie Forsythe: Trump, dread, despair & action. Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: our health care system in crisis.
Agony, Not Much Ecstasy
11/12/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: Trump’s return & the auditor investigating the legislature. Duke Goldman: the politics of sports in the age of Trump. Educator Todd Gazda: the effect of Trump’s election on public education. Craig Aaron, Co-CEO of Free Press: Trump and Musk’s control of the media & how we can fight back.
Peace and War
11/11/24: Coolidge Museum’s Julie Bartlett Nelson & Bill Scher w/ UMass profs Rebecca Hamlin & Raz Sibii: immigration — 1924-2024 and now Trump. UMass Afro-Am Profs Amilcar Shabazz & Toussant Losier: indigenous people & decolonization. Michael Klare: wars & peace & Trump. Veterans for Peace activist Eric Wasileski: Armistice Day
Heartfelt & Embers
11/8/24: Rep Natalie Blais reacts to the election – from the heart. MTA Max Page: election results, state and federal, & the future. Donnabelle Casis w/ Shinnecock artist Courtney Leonard on “Breach: Logbook 24/ Staccatto (a Right Whale).” Matt Spurlock: the Israel arms embargo. MA Fire Marshall Jon Davine: fires raging throughout MA.
Resist!
11/7/24: Rep Jim McGovern: the election & the resistance. Revs Andrea Ayvazian & Terrlyn Curry Avery: keeping faith, keeping on. Labor lawyer Seth Goldstein: the Smith College unions, Trader Joe’s & Trump’s plans to eradicate unions. Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin & activist Paki Wieland: Ukraine, Gaza & Iran, Biden &Trump.
Mourning Morning
11/6/24: DA David Sullivan: Trump’s judiciary — for generations. Larry Hott: support the Movement Voter Project, watch “A Public Defender()…Representing the Jan 6th Rioters.” Brian Adams w/ Markelle Smith, Dir, CT River Watershed P’ship: our environmental future & the $25M land conservation grant. Bill Dwight: an election post-mortem.
