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.
Agony, Not Much Ecstasy
11/12/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: Trump’s return & the auditor investigating the legislature. Duke Goldman: the politics of sports in the age of Trump. Educator Todd Gazda: the effect of Trump’s election on public education. Craig Aaron, Co-CEO of Free Press: Trump and Musk’s control of the media & how we can fight back.
Peace and War
11/11/24: Coolidge Museum’s Julie Bartlett Nelson & Bill Scher w/ UMass profs Rebecca Hamlin & Raz Sibii: immigration — 1924-2024 and now Trump. UMass Afro-Am Profs Amilcar Shabazz & Toussant Losier: indigenous people & decolonization. Michael Klare: wars & peace & Trump. Veterans for Peace activist Eric Wasileski: Armistice Day
Heartfelt & Embers
11/8/24: Rep Natalie Blais reacts to the election – from the heart. MTA Max Page: election results, state and federal, & the future. Donnabelle Casis w/ Shinnecock artist Courtney Leonard on “Breach: Logbook 24/ Staccatto (a Right Whale).” Matt Spurlock: the Israel arms embargo. MA Fire Marshall Jon Davine: fires raging throughout MA.
Resist!
11/7/24: Rep Jim McGovern: the election & the resistance. Revs Andrea Ayvazian & Terrlyn Curry Avery: keeping faith, keeping on. Labor lawyer Seth Goldstein: the Smith College unions, Trader Joe’s & Trump’s plans to eradicate unions. Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin & activist Paki Wieland: Ukraine, Gaza & Iran, Biden &Trump.
Mourning Morning
11/6/24: DA David Sullivan: Trump’s judiciary — for generations. Larry Hott: support the Movement Voter Project, watch “A Public Defender()…Representing the Jan 6th Rioters.” Brian Adams w/ Markelle Smith, Dir, CT River Watershed P’ship: our environmental future & the $25M land conservation grant. Bill Dwight: an election post-mortem.
Putting Out Fires
11/5/24: Sen Jo Comerford celebrates progressive activism this election, thanks poll workers, & explains her Q2 advocacy. Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the city’s 52-acre brush fire & robust early voting. Bill & Buz on the 5 ballot questions (MTA Pres Max Page joins them.) Book banning: Megan Zinn w/ director Kate Way, former NHS teacher: her documentary, “Banned Together.”
Questions & Ramifications
11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.
SCARY STUFF
10/31/24: Political expert Josh Silver: everything you wanted to know about the upcoming election. Michael Harbron on his “Interview with the Devil.” Filmmaker Christopher Seward (“Music for Mushrooms”) & Jamie Morey, advocate for ballot question 4.
Vote
10/30/24: Nate Clifford and Jamie Morey: vote “Yes” on Q4!” Larry Hott w/ Exec Producer Dan Lombardo & screenwriter/actor Brenda Mary Withers of “Dindin.” Brian Adams w/ MA Audubon ecologist Tom Lautzenheiser: scary Halloween creatures bats, spiders & snakes, oh my! UMass Prof Jasmine Kerissey & Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Goals & Galaxies
10/29/24: Spgfld Republican Exec Ed Larry Parnass: crisis in the media. MHC Prof of Physics Kerstin Nordstrom w/ Amherst Prof of Astronomy Mia de Los Reyes: the loneliest galaxies. Ariel Brooks & Nan Parati: saving Ashfield’s Elmer’s & reviving community — good news! Happier Valley Comedy stars Scott Braidman & Pam Victor: the Dream Theater Campaign.
