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.
Care to Bet on the Future?
4/30/24: Holocaust Museum President Bernard Cherkasov, & VP Kelley Szany: genocide & Gaza. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: the UMass encampment. Larry Hott: “Rebuilding the Temple.” Duke Goldman: young people & sports gambling. Big Brothers Big Sisters 14th Annual Daffodil. Environmentalist Court Dorsey: No Assault & Batteries in western Mass.
Author! Author!
4/29/24: Amherst prof & Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans: “Daniel and Ismail.” Lyza Fennel, MICA Founder: “M/Others … Art for Change.” Jewish Activist(s) for Immigration Justice Dina Friedman: “Here in Sanctuary – Whirling.” Megan Zinn w/ Emily Crowe, Penguin Random House sales manager.
Laureates
4/26/24: Reps Mindy Domb, Natalie Blais & Pat Duffy on herds, gaggles, budgets & parliaments. U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon at Smith: ArtBeat w/ the Poetry Center’s Matt Donovan & Jen Blackburn. Atty Steven Schwartz: Mass. nursing home residents coming home! Silas Kopf: Riverside Industries’ auction tonight!
Supreme Anxiety
4/25/24: ACLUM E.D. Carol Rose: will SCOTUS criminalize poverty, free Donald Trump & enshrine fetal personhood? Edwards Church Rev Michael McSherry: free? will. GCC science prof emeritus Brian Adams w/ Sadie Forsythe, climate anxiety therapist. All That Jazz: John Anz gigging with pianist Andrew Wilcox.
Hear This
4/24/24: Amherst prof Ilan Stavans: Point/Counterpoint featuring Ruth Ozeki. Sex Matters w/ Dr. Jane Fleishman on consent. CDH’s Jennifer Crain & Karen Miller: hospice care. Larry Hott: “The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights & “Rising Voices … the Lakota Language.”
Going to a Third Party?
4/23/24: Josh Silver on DJT, RFK, Jr. & Joe. MHC Prof Kerstin Nordstrom & UMass Psych Prof Tara Mandalaywala: how kids perceive race & class. Brad Wolf, ed., Phillip Berrigan’s “Ministry of Risk.” PVPA mock trial champions — History Leader Gary Huggett, Elixa Tuthill, Charlotte Powell & Luke Laplante.
Down to Earth Day
4/22/24: Atty John Pucci: the Trump trial. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: the passing of civil rights icon Bill Strickland. George Kohout, Pres, & Alena Huisman, VP, Friends of N’hmpton Trails: the cleanup. Treehouse Fndn Founder Judy Cockerton & Bd Chair Sarah Carlan: running the runway for foster care.
Amending
4/19/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the state budget. MTA Pres Max Page: the right to strike & MCAS. The Lava Center’s Open Stage w/ Vanessa Query & Nisse Greenberg. David Knowles & Jaris Hanson: fab local theater. Kennedy Institute CEO Adams Hinds: dysfunction.
Hear Today
4/18/24: DHG & Recorder editor Dan Crowley: bear paws & CRESS. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: the war, antisemitism & Passover. Brian Adams w/ Sublime Systems CEO Leah Ellis & Comms Dir Erin Glabets: environmentally friendly concrete. Ruth Griggs w/ VT Jazz Ctr ED Eugene Uman.
War and Pieces
4/17/24: Amherst’s Ilan Stavans w/ Ukranian-American, hard-of-hearing poet, translator & Princeton prof Ilya Kaminsky. Larry Hott: “Through Deaf Eyes.” Ken Grossinger: “Art Works…Organizers and Artists … A Better World Together.” Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: unions & Trader Joe’s.
