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.  

Stayin’ Alive

8/16/24: Hot Films w/Larry Hott & Maggie Mailer: “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer.” ArtBeat w/ Betsy Stone, Rebecca Muller & Maria Timina: “Impermanence” @ Gallery 3. Gfld former mayor Roxann Wedegartner: lessons from the pandemic. Kennedy Inst. CEO Adam Hinds: off to the races.

From the Horse’s Mouth

8/15/24: Garrick Perry and Neal Robinson: the Iron Horse is back! Smith prof Carrie Baker w/ Sam Sharf, who fled New College of Florida & has been welcomed at Hampshire. UMass Prof Nancy Folbre: recipient of a $2.7 million grant to study the need for childcare & elder care.

Larry Hott & Jonathan Harr

Don’t Look Back?

8/14/24: Bestselling & acclaimed author Peter Heller: “BURN.” Larry Hott & Jonathan Harr: “Ripley” & “The Imposter.” Brian Adams w/ Gardening the Community activists Ramon Elliston, Liarexmy, and Jhaneil Ramirez. Former Mass Senate Pres Stan Rosenberg: the race for president and musings on Harris-Walz.

Arts Council's Steve Sanderson & Peter McQuillan

Building the Plane While Flying It

8/13/24: Rep Pat Duffy: school receivership & economic development & climate bills still not passed. Northampton Arts Council’s Steve Sanderson & Peter McQuillan: PERFORMANCE 34! Educ Collab Dir Todd Gazda: Covid’s impact. Amherst Coll music prof Eric Sawyer & theater prof Ron Bashford: “The Onion”– their new opera.

Michael Klare

Our PILOTS, Ourselves

8/12/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshus Garcia: a PILOT, the police chief, schools & receivership. UMass Afro-Am Prof Amilcar Shabazz: racism & the presidential. Sen Paul Mark: climate & economic development bills — now what? Nation Mag Defense Corr & Prof Emeritus Michael Klare: two major wars on the brink.

UMass Prof Stephen Rich

Ticking Us Off

8/9/24: Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: UMass seeking felony riot charges against protesters. MTA Pres Max Page: Walz’s record on education & Mass legislature’s failures. Smith Gov’t Prof Howard Gold: misogyny in the presidential. UMass Microbiology prof Stephen Rich: serious threats from ticks.

McSherry

America’s Consciousness & Retirement

8/8/24: Tamar Fields—Friends of Standing Together; Michael McSherry senior pastor on retiring from Edward’s Church; Aaron Falbel & Mary Link remembering Randy Kehler; Ruth Griggs and Paul Arslanian on Northampton Jazz Fest.

Amanda Nash & Gretchen Gerstner

Take a Flyer * Recycle Those Flyers!! Take a Dip!

8/7/24: Our D.A. David Sullivan: presidential politics, progressive law enforcement & crime here. Co-Dir of UMass Poll, prof Ray La Raja: Harris up 3%. GCC prof Brian Adams w/ N’hmptn Climate Action Dir Ben Weil: reliable green energy here NOW —really!! Amanda Nash & Gretchen Gerstner: Ashfield Lakehouse GRAND Re-opening.

John Pucci

Justice and the Election

8/6/24: Atty John Pucci: Will Trump be sentenced to jail next month? Amherst-based Amilcar Shabazz & Kathleen Anderson: Reparations Now? Reparations Now! A comedic break– Larry Hott reviews Albert Brooks’ “Defending My Life.” Mass. Democratic Party Chair Steve Kerrigan: how to elect Harris-Walz.

Overwhelming

8/5/24: Sen Jo Comerford: the failed clean energy bill, Umass protests, unfunded UMass contracts, Harris & Biden. Eric Reeves, Darfur Bar Ass’n Trustee: catastrophic famine in Sudan and & Darfur. Buz on GTMO, trials, the death penalty, & the just-killed plea deal. Megan Zinn w/ Marjan Kamali: “The Lion Women of Tehran.”

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