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.  

Cassandra Holden & chef extraordinaire O'Brian Tomalin

To Go, Please

9/4/24: DA David Sullivan: drugs, prosecution & National Recovery Month. Bombyx E.D. Cassandra Holden & chef extraordinaire O’Brian Tomalin: O’Brian in YOUR kitchen. Brian Adams, Environ Prof Susan Masino & Climate Action Now’s Susan Theberge: our forests, ourselves & the presidential debate. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: allegations re new Gfld police chief.

Posing Questions, Finishing the Sentence

9/3/24: Atty John Pucci: Trump’s trials & his upcoming NY sentence. Happier Valley Comedy’s Pam Victor & Scott Braidman: building the Dream. Sen Paul Mark: today’s vote. Antisemitism w/ Prof. Michael Hoberman, Rev. Randy Calvo & organizer Kim Audette.

elsie fetterman

There’s No Such Word as Can’t

8/30/24: David Knowles w/ Valley Players’ Matteo Pangallo: “Constellation.” MTA Pres Max Page: Tim Walz, workers rights & MCAS. Donnabelle Casis w/ the Mead’s Lisa Crossman: “Part of an Impossible Task: Michael Rakowitz.” Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: Covid, EEE, & West Nile. Amherst’s 97 y.o. Elsie Fetterman: her new autobiography.

Troubled World But a Better World

8/29/24: Hampshire Prof Michael Klare: bigger wars in the Middle East & Ukraine? Harvard atheist chaplain Greg Epstein: moral questions of Zionism, the war, Israel, & antisemitism. Retiring CISA Director & Local Hero Phil Korman. THANK YOU, PHIL, FOR MAKING OUR WORLD BETTTER. Marty Jaffe and Jason Ennis of “Tone Forest” on All that Jazz.

Doctor Sonny Shukla

Doctor! Doctor!

8/28/24: Larry Hott: The Academy Awards season begins for Academy voters! Prof Brian Adams w/ youth climate leaders from MA Audubon Makaiya, Brian, Kaylie, Keila, & Ariane. CDH’s new Associate Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sunny Shukla on expansion of ER, viruses, and more.

Josh Silver

Change Gonna’ Come?

8/27/24: Political Consultant Josh Silver: Trump & Harris are in a dead heat. Baseball researcher Duke Goldman on Inclusion & Diversity in sports. Hampshire Prof Omar Dahi on the turmoil in the Middle East.

Opening Day

8/26/24: UMass Afro-Am Professor Amilcar Shabazz on the new school year, curriculum, Black history & racism & the presidential election. Politics and prognostications with the Bills—Scher & Dwight. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: UMass protests, Mutual Aid Agreements & a new library? — the fight goes on.​

Living History!

8/23/24: Rep. Mindy Domb on Kamala, the Dem Convention, and MA state elections. MTA Pres Max Page w/ Ross Grace: end MCAS as graduation req’t: Kim Carlino w/Ramiro Davaro-Comas & Meghan Zaremba on the Michelson mural. International Language Institute turns 40! – ILI Dir Caroline Gear & Founder Alexis Johnson. Duke Goldman: Amazin’ Aaron Judge, all-timers at the SABR conference, & the pennant race.

Political but Non-Partisan

ACLUM ED Carol Rose: while political, ACLU remains non-partisan. Rev Carole Bull: separate church & state, not people. Prof Michael Klare on 3 threats: nuclear proliferation, Ukraine’s move into Russia, and expansion of war in the Middle East. Ruth Griggs & vocalist Ekep Nkwelle, coming to Northampton Jazz Fest.

Larry Hott

Staying Alive

8/21/24: Larry Hott w/ Maggie Mailer: “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer.” Producer Robert Freeman & actor Jaris Hanson on the play “My Mama and the Full Scale Invasion.” Brian Adams & ED Tim Johnson of Native Plant Trust. Dusty Christensen: Democratic Convention & Holyoke police dragnet?

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