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.  

Democracy? Or Kakistocracy?

Holyoke Mayor, Trump, Racism & Sexism, and 2025 favorite reads.

Max Page

There Oughta Be a Law

1/10/25: MTA Pres Max Page: being at the White House w/ President Biden. Bill & Buz on Trump’s cases. Donnabelle Casis w/ Amherst Coll student curators Mel Arthur & Angie Camarena: “RePresenting: Art Beyond the Color Line.” Kyiv School of Econ students: Asta Motrenko, Oleksandra Horusieva, Marharyta Nechytailo, Karyna Lutsenko. GTMO atty John Chandler: the prison’s 23rd anniversary & the recent transfers

Former Presidents

1/9/25: Jonathan Lash, author & former Hampshire Coll President on “What Death Revealed…” Michael McSherry, Sr Pastor, Edwards Church: he is leaving & we are sad. Marc Lendler, Smith Coll Prof Emeritus of Gov’t: Jimmy Carter’s legacy. Rich Michelson on his new kids’ book, “More Than Enough.”

What We Do and Don’t Want to Know

1/8/25: DA David Sullivan: Trump & ICE & local law enforcement. Larry Hott reviews two great films: “Union” & “Frida.” Brian Adams w/ Ben Weil: Northampton’s proposed fossil fuel free building codes. Raja Khouri & Jeffrey Wilkinson: “The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know About Each Other.”

John Pucci

Sentences

1/7/25: Buz on yesterday’s 11 GTMO transfers & who’s left there. Atty John Pucci: the remaining Trump cases — will SCOTUS bail him out?  Michael Klare on Trump, wars & autocrats, — Gaza, Ukraine, Russia & China, Sen Paul Mark on Trump targeting Massachusetts & the legislature’s transparency. Jessica Gifford: addressing the loneliness pandemic.

In the Money

1/6/25: Sen Jo Comerford: bracing for Trump, newly passed bills, & 2025 priorities. Hamp Mayor GL Sciarra: municipal money, capital Improvements — SEXY! & the Main St. Project. Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Recorder columnist & former Chair, Gfld Human Rts Comm: surviving dark times well. Megan Zinn w/ romance novel legend Loretta Chase: “My Inconvenient Duke.”

Under Oath

1/3/25: MTA Pres Max Page: change K-12 funding & other 2025 priorities. Bill & Buz: the meaning of the oath that Congress takes today. Donnabelle Casis w/ New England Visionary Artists Museum Co-directors Michael Tillyer & Susan Foley. Community Action’s Claire Higgins on Housing in Place. Human Rights Attorney Laura Pitter: the issue is genocide.

Darkness & Light

1/2/25: Rep Jim McGovern: terror in New Orleans & scary stuff in Washington. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske & JM Sorrell on “We Will Dance Again: Surviving October 7th,” a film about the Hamas massacre. Ed Orzechowski & Darlene Volpe on “Becoming Darlene: The Story of Belchertown Patient #3394.” Ruth Griggs w/ Director Jeff Olmsted: Valley Jazz Voices &  the January 12 concert.

Auld Friends

12/31/24: First Night archguitarist Peter Blanchette plays live in the studio. Bill gives Buz & Dan a 2024 political quiz – they flunk (but still impress Newman). From GCC –science prof Brian Adams w/ Natural Resources Coordinator Tony Reiber: New Year’s resolutions for the earth. Hampshire Prof of Peace & World Security Studies Michael Klare on Jimmy Carter, Ukraine & NATO.

Loss & Found

12/30/24: Amherst School Superintendent Dr. Xiomara Herman: wrapping her arms around her job.

Bill Dwight: a trip down memory lane — Pleasant St. Video, the removal of Main St. benches & Jimmy Carter remembered. Megan Zinn’s favorite reads of 2024.

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