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.  

Left to Right: "Jesus Queen of Heaven" w/ playwright & actor Jo Clifford, Nurse Practitioner Rebecca Stewart, & First Churches Pastor Sarah Buteux.

Budgeting: Schools & Love

6/7/24: MTA Pres Max Page w/ N’hmptn Assoc. of School Employees Pres Andrea Egitto & MTA Training Dir Ricardo Rosa: Northampton & other school budgets. Donnabelle Casis w/ Tori Lawrence, Founder, Atland Artist Residency in Chesterfield. Clare Higgins, Exec. Dir, Community Action & Comm’r, Mass. Poverty Commission. “Jesus Queen of Heaven” w/ playwright & actor Jo Clifford, Nurse Practitioner Rebecca Stewart, & First Churches Pastor Sarah Buteux.

No Film Over These Eyes

6/6/24:  Rep Jim McGovern: D-Day, immigration & Gaza. Rev Andrea Ayvazian & N’hmptn City Councilor Garrick Perry on reparations. Filmmaker Larry Hott: Super-Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock & RETROGRADE. Ruth Griggs w/ Adam Kahan, from the Oslo Freedom Forum, producer of the film “Buster Williams Bass to Infinity.” 

The Rule(s) of Law

6/5/24: DA David Sullivan: the MAGA threats & the UMass protest cases. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: race, Sojourner Truth, & art. Brian Adams w/ John Feffer, Dir, Institute for Policy Studies: slivers of hope in the climate crisis. Bill Feinstein: immigrants living at Logan.

Polls, Pols & Mush

6/4/24: Tatishe Nteta, Poli-Sci Prof & Director of UMass Poll: the election polls today. Marla BB of Hilltown Sled Dogs: mushing at minus 40 degrees. Sen Paul Mark: housing here and now. Richie Davis: 42 years of Western Mass. stories for the Gfld Recorder.

Left to right: Megan Zinn and Jen Jabaily-Blackburn

Reflections

6/3/24: UMass prof Amilcar Shabazz reflects on Bill Strickland & recent arrests of protesters. Northampton Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra: the school budget. Mary Cowhey & Kat Brow: Families with Power. Megan Zinn w/ poets Jen Jabaily-Blackburn (“Girl in a Bear Suit’) & Amanda Shaw/ (“It Will Have Been So Beautiful”).

John Pucci

Talk The Talk: Convictions

Convictions
5/31/24: Attorney John Pucci: Trump’s convictions. Artbeat: Donnabelle Casis & 50 Arrow Gallery’s Jason Montgomery: the Low End Theory show. Amherst’s new CRESS Director Camille Theriaque: alternatives to an armed police response. Amherst law and poli sci prof Austin Sarat: the politics of Trumps convictions.

Talk The Talk: Life and Live in the Studio

Life and Live in the Studio
5/30/24:  ACLU of MA ED Carol Rose: campus protests & the Supreme Court. Harvard Chaplain & atheist Greg Epstein on Gaza. GCC science prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Extension Service’s Jon Clements: fruit and fruit trees. John Anz w/ clarinetist & vocalist Evan Arnsten — coming to the Drake.

Talk The Talk: Hard To Describe

Hard to Describe
5/29/24: Michael Hoffen,16 y.o.! Egyptian hieroglyph translator: “BE A SCRIBE: Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt.” Larry Hott w/ Amherst Media’s Jim Lescault & Yanna Ok: the Cambodians in Amherst exhibit. Michael Klare: war crimes, no peace in Gaza and Ukraine. Rev Carol Bull: finding faith, keeping faith.

Talk The Talk: What’s Brewing?

What’s Brewing?
5/28/24: Josh Silver: polls & the presidential – the jury is out. Amherst prof Eric Sawyer: his new opera, “The Onion.” Johnny Memphis: the ‘tones & NHS bands tomorrow! Duke Goldman: Bill Walton, $ for college athletes, & bye-bye, bad ump. Profs Kerstin Nordstrom (MHC) & Lutz Grossman (UMass): brewing new proteins.

Talk The Talk : Good News, Bad News, Just News

Good News, Bad News, Good News, Just News
5/24/24: MTA Pres Max Page: Fair Share Amend’s $2 Billion!! Rep Mindy Domb: threats to abortion rights. Donnabelle Casis w/ Eggtooth’s Linda McInerney: “Orlando” at the Shea. Sports guy Scott Coen: the Celts. Jess Tyler: News Director. David Knowles w/ Alli Ross & John Bechtold: “Where I End & You Begin,” magic at MassMoCA.

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