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.  

Care to Bet on the Future?

4/30/24: Holocaust Museum President Bernard Cherkasov, & VP Kelley Szany: genocide & Gaza. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: the UMass encampment. Larry Hott: “Rebuilding the Temple.” Duke Goldman: young people & sports gambling. Big Brothers Big Sisters 14th Annual Daffodil. Environmentalist Court Dorsey: No Assault & Batteries in western Mass.

Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans

Author! Author!

4/29/24: Amherst prof & Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans: “Daniel and Ismail.” Lyza Fennel, MICA Founder: “M/Others … Art for Change.” Jewish Activist(s) for Immigration Justice Dina Friedman: “Here in Sanctuary – Whirling.” Megan Zinn w/ Emily Crowe, Penguin Random House sales manager.

Laureates

4/26/24: Reps Mindy Domb, Natalie Blais & Pat Duffy on herds, gaggles, budgets & parliaments. U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon at Smith: ArtBeat w/ the Poetry Center’s Matt Donovan & Jen Blackburn. Atty Steven Schwartz: Mass. nursing home residents coming home! Silas Kopf: Riverside Industries’ auction tonight!

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. 

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