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.  

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.

Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans

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.

Northampton Trails

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.

Dan Crowley

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.

Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans

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. 

John Pucci

A Great Mash-up!

4/16/24: John Pucci: Trump’s trial. THE Mash-up: Y@H, Pride Chorus, Children’s Choir & The Best Thing Ever. The monthly Comedy Quiz w/ Happier Valley Comedy. Mohawk Trail Regional School District Superintendent Sheryl L. Stanton. Poetry & song with Rich & Marisa Michelson & Kinga Cserjési, coming to Bombyx.

Write On

4/15/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: schools, & policing. Joan Gelfand: “Outside Voices: A Memoir of the Berkeley Revolution”. W. Mass author Mickey Rathbun: “The Real Gatsby George Gordon Moore: A Granddaughter’s Memoir.” Holly Gramazio (soon at the Odyssey): “The Husbands.”

Carrie Baker and Dallas Ducar

Messes & Hope

4/12/24: Rep. Natalie Blais: housing & gaming. Barbara Diamond Goldin: “Benjy’s Messy Room.”  MTA Pres Max Page: state ed. funding. Artbeat with Donnabelle Casis, Kelly Silliman & Joie Gonzalez. Smith’s Carrie Baker & Trans Health CEO Dallas Ducar (fabulous!).  Amherst Town Council Pres Lynn Griesemer on schools & PILOTS.

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