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.
War & Pieces
6/12/24: John Berkowitz & John Feffer: tonight at Forbes – the Ukraine war. Larry Hott w/ Tom Goldscheider: Gfld Tap & Dye, the U.E. & the Red Scare. GCC science prof Brian Adams & Karen Foster, Exec. Dir., All Out Adventures: their adventures. Megan Zinn & Lisa Papademetriou: the Nhmptn Ed. Fndn Showcase.
Endings
6/11/24: Rep. Patricia Duffy: ending Holyoke’s school receivership, $6.5 Billion for housing & the Mass. Parentage Act. Duke Goldman: MLB, Aaron Judge, the Negro Leagues & the Hall of Fame. Todd Gazda: Collab for Educ. Dir: the purpose(s) of high school, community colleges & jobs. Eric Reeves: famine in Sudan and Darfur.
SITE SEEING!
6/10/24: Holyoke Mayor Josh Garcia: Preparing to end school receivership. Amilcar Shabazz w/ author Kellie Carter Jackson – “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.” Site specific plays “Pulling at the Roots” at Historic Northampton: Co-Dir Laurie Sanders w/ playwrights Talya Kingston & Patrick Gabridge. Megan Zinn w/ author Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Housemates”
Budgeting: Schools & Love
6/7/24: MTA Pres Max Page w/ N’hmptn Assoc. of School Employees Pres Andrea Egitto & MTA Training Dir Ricardo Rosa: Northampton & other school budgets. Donnabelle Casis w/ Tori Lawrence, Founder, Atland Artist Residency in Chesterfield. Clare Higgins, Exec. Dir, Community Action & Comm’r, Mass. Poverty Commission. “Jesus Queen of Heaven” w/ playwright & actor Jo Clifford, Nurse Practitioner Rebecca Stewart, & First Churches Pastor Sarah Buteux.
No Film Over These Eyes
6/6/24: Rep Jim McGovern: D-Day, immigration & Gaza. Rev Andrea Ayvazian & N’hmptn City Councilor Garrick Perry on reparations. Filmmaker Larry Hott: Super-Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock & RETROGRADE. Ruth Griggs w/ Adam Kahan, from the Oslo Freedom Forum, producer of the film “Buster Williams Bass to Infinity.”
The Rule(s) of Law
6/5/24: DA David Sullivan: the MAGA threats & the UMass protest cases. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: race, Sojourner Truth, & art. Brian Adams w/ John Feffer, Dir, Institute for Policy Studies: slivers of hope in the climate crisis. Bill Feinstein: immigrants living at Logan.
Polls, Pols & Mush
6/4/24: Tatishe Nteta, Poli-Sci Prof & Director of UMass Poll: the election polls today. Marla BB of Hilltown Sled Dogs: mushing at minus 40 degrees. Sen Paul Mark: housing here and now. Richie Davis: 42 years of Western Mass. stories for the Gfld Recorder.
Reflections
6/3/24: UMass prof Amilcar Shabazz reflects on Bill Strickland & recent arrests of protesters. Northampton Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra: the school budget. Mary Cowhey & Kat Brow: Families with Power. Megan Zinn w/ poets Jen Jabaily-Blackburn (“Girl in a Bear Suit’) & Amanda Shaw/ (“It Will Have Been So Beautiful”).
Talk The Talk: Convictions
Convictions
5/31/24: Attorney John Pucci: Trump’s convictions. Artbeat: Donnabelle Casis & 50 Arrow Gallery’s Jason Montgomery: the Low End Theory show. Amherst’s new CRESS Director Camille Theriaque: alternatives to an armed police response. Amherst law and poli sci prof Austin Sarat: the politics of Trumps convictions.
Talk The Talk: Life and Live in the Studio
Life and Live in the Studio
5/30/24: ACLU of MA ED Carol Rose: campus protests & the Supreme Court. Harvard Chaplain & atheist Greg Epstein on Gaza. GCC science prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Extension Service’s Jon Clements: fruit and fruit trees. John Anz w/ clarinetist & vocalist Evan Arnsten — coming to the Drake.
