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.  

Rallying

6/21/24: Amherst Young Feminist Party’s Marisol Pierce Bonifaz & Alice Jenkins: tomorrow’s protest. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: the maternal health bill. Baseball historian Duke Goldman: Willie Mays’ passing. Donnabelle Casis w/ “Pulling at the Roots” playwrights Patrick Gabridge & Talya Kinston. MTA Pres Max Page w/ Jack Schneider: the MCAS a graduation requirement. EM Kennedy Inst. Pres Adam Hinds: Congressional dysfunction.

GCC Union Pres Trevor Kearns

Protests

6/20/24: DHG & Recorder Editor Dan Crowley: the N’hmpton school budget fight. Duke Goldman: the great Willie Mays. Rev. Michael McSherry: civil disobedience in scripture. Activists Susan Triolo & Louise Antony: the “Bigger than Dobbs” rally. GCC Union Pres Trevor Kearns: the No Confidence vote on the College President.

Left to Right: musicians Morgana Morena (flute) Fabio Oliveira (pandeiro), Fernanda Silveira (cavaquinho), Joao Camarero (7-string guitar),

Music Live & Secrets Revealed 

6/19/24: LIVE! Choro musicians Fabio Oliveira (pandeiro), Joao Camarero (7-string guitar), Fernanda Silveira (cavaquinho), Morgana Morena (flute) WOW!! Larry Hott w/ Karen Brown “The Secrets We Keep.” Brian Adams w/ naturalist Molly Hale: porcupines, lichen & fireflies. Reporter Dusty Christensen: UMass’ dirty money & Nhmtn cop investigations. 

Commonwealth Heroines Pamela Adams

Representatives Heroes

6/18/24: Atty John Pucci: sentencing Donald Trump & Hunter Biden. The Deep-Sea Monster Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor, Scott Braidman & you! Steve Sanderson: Green River Festival. Commonwealth Heroines Pamela Adams, Alisa Klein, Henia Lewin w/ Sen. Jo Comerford, Reps Mindy Domb & Natalie Blais.

Left to Right: Megan Zinn w/ Amherst author Catherine Newman

Bump Up Against This

6/17/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: schools & threats. The Climate Change Community Forum w/ Sheryl Stoodley, John Fedder, Debanmanyu Das & Susan Theberge. Bill & Buz: bump stocks, abortion rights & SCOTUS. Megan Zinn w/ Amherst author Catherine Newman: “Sandwich,” secrets, family & funny.

Carrie Baker Hamp Reg grad Alice Jenkins

Keeping On Keeping On

6/14/24: Rep Natalie Blais: revenge porn, legal parentage, farming, diversity & local heroes. MTA Pres Max Page: the $2 Billion Fair Share question. Donnabelle Casis w/ Julian Lowenthal: “Money Game.” Carrie Baker w/ 2024 Hamp Reg grad Alice Jenkins: student activism. David Detmold: our violent, racist state flag & seal.

Serious Play's Sheryl Stoodley, Stephanie Reyes & Marcus Neverson

Moving Water, Music & People

6/13/24: Serious Play’s Sheryl Stoodley, Stephanie Reyes & Marcus Neverson: “Moving Water.” Django in June’s Andrew Lawrence w/ musicians Tcha Limberger & Renaud Dardenne – LIVE! Lee Badgett: $20 million for women’s well-being. Ruth Griggs & John Anz: his father’s musical treasures performed here this weekend.

War & Pieces

6/12/24: John Berkowitz & John Feffer: tonight at Forbes – the Ukraine war. Larry Hott w/ Tom Goldscheider: Gfld Tap & Dye, the U.E. & the Red Scare. GCC science prof Brian Adams & Karen Foster, Exec. Dir., All Out Adventures: their adventures. Megan Zinn & Lisa Papademetriou: the Nhmptn Ed. Fndn Showcase.

Endings

6/11/24: Rep. Patricia Duffy: ending Holyoke’s school receivership, $6.5 Billion for housing & the Mass. Parentage Act. Duke Goldman: MLB, Aaron Judge, the Negro Leagues & the Hall of Fame. Todd Gazda: Collab for Educ. Dir: the purpose(s) of high school, community colleges & jobs. Eric Reeves: famine in Sudan and Darfur.

SITE SEEING!

6/10/24: Holyoke Mayor Josh Garcia: Preparing to end school receivership. Amilcar Shabazz w/ author Kellie Carter Jackson – “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.” Site specific plays “Pulling at the Roots” at Historic Northampton: Co-Dir Laurie Sanders w/ playwrights Talya Kingston & Patrick Gabridge. Megan Zinn w/ author Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Housemates”

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