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.
Endings
1/22/25: ICE now in churches & schools. Larry Hott: “Seat 31,” “Planetwalker” & “Keeper.” Collab Res Dir Kit Sabo & Fr Co COG Coord Leigh Figueroa: “Restorative Practices in Schools” during Trump 2.0. Brian Adams w/ Grow Food N’hmptn Co-Dir Michael Skillicorn. CDH Hospice Mgr Karen Miller & Cent Hamp Veterans Services Dir Steve Connor: end of life issues.
It’s Only Day One! & What Remains?
1/21/24:Transhealth CEO Jo Erwin: Trump’s anti-Trans Exec Orders. The Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Julie Waggoner & Scott Braidman: Firsts! MHC Poli Sci & Int’l Relat Prof Andrew Reiter: Trump’s unbrave new world. A final resting place: Better Place Forests’ Libby Friede & customer Vicki Lindsay.
Deadline –Today!
1/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: her priorities & bill filing deadline – today! MTA’s Max Page: the Gov’s State of MA,”…
Truth and Consequences
1/16/24: The Gazette’s Scout Opatut: arts & features in/of the Valley. Michael Klare: the Israel-Hamas truce. The Mass. Review’s Jim Hicks & Britt Rusert: “The View from Gaza” & the future. Ruth Griggs w/ Jeff Olmsted: his folk opera on the life of Jonathan Edwards –at Bombyx.
Dear Ella, Larry, Brian, Russ, Paki, &; Sandra
1/15/24: Dear Ella (Saturday in Leverett). Films. Climate change. The World We Want Rally – Saturday.
There Oughta Be a Law
1/10/25: MTA Pres Max Page: being at the White House w/ President Biden. Bill & Buz on Trump’s cases. Donnabelle Casis w/ Amherst Coll student curators Mel Arthur & Angie Camarena: “RePresenting: Art Beyond the Color Line.” Kyiv School of Econ students: Asta Motrenko, Oleksandra Horusieva, Marharyta Nechytailo, Karyna Lutsenko. GTMO atty John Chandler: the prison’s 23rd anniversary & the recent transfers
Former Presidents
1/9/25: Jonathan Lash, author & former Hampshire Coll President on “What Death Revealed…” Michael McSherry, Sr Pastor, Edwards Church: he is leaving & we are sad. Marc Lendler, Smith Coll Prof Emeritus of Gov’t: Jimmy Carter’s legacy. Rich Michelson on his new kids’ book, “More Than Enough.”
What We Do and Don’t Want to Know
1/8/25: DA David Sullivan: Trump & ICE & local law enforcement. Larry Hott reviews two great films: “Union” & “Frida.” Brian Adams w/ Ben Weil: Northampton’s proposed fossil fuel free building codes. Raja Khouri & Jeffrey Wilkinson: “The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know About Each Other.”
