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.
Here’s Our Pitch
5/14/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: the Soldiers Home, schools, & health care. SABR star Duke Goldman: pitching at 100+ mph. Educ Collab Dir Todd Gazda: middle & high school student protests. Caitlin Arnold Stephano: Farm Aid & its hotline. Cntr for New Americans Dir Laurie Millman: “Immigrant Voices.”
Aspirations & Arrests
5/13/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Paper City’s present & future: the arts, police & schools. UMass profs Amilcar Shabazz & Toussaint Losier: encampments, the Chancellor’s “last resort” & arrests. THE Lesléa Newman: her new books “Joyful Song: A Naming Story” & “Like Father, Like Son.” CSO’s Geoffrey Oldmixon: Wednesday’s Wellness Fair. Megan Zinn w/ Christopher Carlisle: Pickett’s Dream.”
Protest
Rep Natalie Blais: saving the Connecticut River. MTA Pres Max Page: turmoil at UMass. Cassandra Holden, Exec. Director Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity. Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ Jackson Katz, co-founder, Mentors in Violence Prevention.
Justice
5/9/24: Alice Levine: W. Mass. Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: Palestinians & Israelis together. GCC prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Entomologist Tawny Simisky: good & bad local bugs. Bike Day, Week & Month w/ Karl Ahrendsen & Mass Bike Comms Director Jes Slavin.
Bagels and the Existential
5/8/24: Welcome to Chester Theatre w/ Chris Rohmann, James Barry & Hero Marguerite: Larry Hott w/ Sokhen Mao: “Rebuilding the Temple” in Amherst. Hampshire prof Michael Klare: the Gaza & Ukraine wars. Shutesbury’s Michael DeChiara: sites for solar, wind farms and battery storage.
Stormy?
5/7/24: Atty John Pucci on Trump’s hush money trial. Environmentalist Sarah Lamagna: “Swimming Holes New England.” Sen Paul Mark: budget fights. Tapestry Health CEO Mavis Nimoh: STIs, harm reduction & reasons for hope.
Monarchs
5/6/24: Sen Jo Comerford: $ for K-12 and higher ed. Smith prof & author Naila Moreira: “The Monarchs of Winghaven.” Live in Studio: Ukes for Ukraine w/ Terry Nagel & Jimmy Burgoff. Megan Zinn w/ prof Cathie Mercier, curator, “Pictures at Play …” at the Carle.
Taking Flight
5/3/24: MTA Pres Max Page, VP Deb McCarthy & educator Kathy Greeley, author, ” Testing Education: A Teacher’s Memoir.” Astronomer Salman Hameed: flights to Europa & the far side of the moon, Donnabelle Casis w/ Chris Ferry: Easthampton Film Festival. Clay Pearson, Director, Northampton Pride. Clare Higgins: student protests. AANHPI Comm’r & UMass history prof Richard Chu: AANHPI Heritage Month.
Our House
5/2/24: Congressman Jim McGovern on antisemitism, Speaker? Johnson, & Ukraine. Atty John Pucci on Trump’s trial & contempt. Brian Adams w/ UMass Urban Agriculture expert, Ibrahim Ali: food for all. Ruth Griggs w/ Interstellar Medium’s Jahian Cooper-Monize: rhythm and jazz.
Coming to Western Mass? A HUGE Toxic Waste Dump!
5/1/24: Lee Select Bd Chair Bob Jones: the GE & Monsanto toxic dump. Atty Richard Cole: innocent people serving 25 years in Mass. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman on the police, CRESS, the (doomed?) library & schools. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: two local corruption stories.
