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.
No Monkeying Around
10/28/24: Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans: Mexico’s Jewish woman president & “Sabor Judio: the Jewish-Mexican Cookbook.” UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz: the Black experience & this election. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: housing, schools, bids, the library & downtown. Megan Zinn w/ Bill Roorbach, author of “Beep”—a narrating monkey.
Living History, Amplifying Voices
10/25/24: Smith Prof, Doctor of Rock, Steve Waksman: amplifying voices & Living History. MTA Pres Max Page w/ Lynn School Supt Evonne Alverez: MCAS as grad req’t is discriminatory. SupraNatural Curator Donnabelle Casis & STCC Art Prof & Gallery Director Sondra Peron: Go see this show! Matthew Spurlock & Molly Merrett, leaders of the call for River Valley Co-op to boycott Israeli products.
The Election
10/24/24: ACLU MA Ex Dir Carol Rose: protecting democracy, fighting fascism. Rev Carole Bull: the politics of Christianity today. Live from London, journalist Stryker McGuire: right-wing politics & the UK view of Trump. “All that Jazz” w/ Ruth Griggs & VT Jazz Ctr’s Co-Directors Eugene Uman & Elsa Borrero: great performances.
Questions
10/23/24: Bill & Buz on Q1. Larry Hott w/ filmmaker Evan Goodchild & Peggy Gillespie: “The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie.” Brian Adams w/ Billy Spitzer, Exec Dir, the Hitchcock Ctr for the Environment: living buildings, living our lives. Bill & Buz: on ballot Qs 2,3,4 & 5.
Making Decisions
10/22/24: Political Gold with Josh Silver: the White House, the Senate & the House. Steve Sanderson: the NEF Adult Spelling Bee. Duke Goldman—he’s front-page news: the World Series, the Negro Leagues & remembering Luis Tiant. Marissa Labozzetta: “The Men Who Walk in Dreams.”
Getting to the End
10/21/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: the five MA ballot questions. Drs. Lewis Cohen & Jeffrey Zesiger: “WINTER’S END: Dementia and Dying Well”— making end-of-life decisions. Rep Natalie Blais: voting deadlines & why your vote really matters. Megan Zinn w/ Joy Baglio, founder, Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop.
Our Ballots Ourselves
10/18/24: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: the new Climate Bill and the 5 Mass ballot questions. MTA Pres Max Page responds to opponents of Ballot Q 2 (MCAS as a h.s. grad requirement). ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis & Kat Adler: “A Happening IV: Leviathan” at the Shea. GCC science prof Brian Admas w/ Will Savitri of PV Squared: solar power now! Adam Hinds, CEO of the Kennedy Inst for U.S. Senate: the venality of our politics.
All the Words Fit to Print & Speak & Spell
10/17/24: Gazette & Recorder Exec Editor Dan Crowley: the stories they print. Edwards Church Rev Michael McSherry: the words we speak. Megan Zinn & Lisa Papademetriou: the Nhmptn Education Fndn’s Spelling Bee. Prof Rafael Martinez: his migrant story & “Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the U.S.”
Light Sound & Fury
10/16/24: Paul Newlin: Grammy-nominated “Ball in the House”—coming to Whately. Larry Hott hosts “In Light of Time” w/ artists Mary Ann Kelly, Laura Radwell & Carolyn Webb. Defense expert Michael Klare: bigger wars –soon? now? Prof Michael Meeropol: fascism v. democracy –the choice before the country again. Sexual harassment & the Holyoke police with Shoestring Investigative Editor Dusty Christensen.
Where We Stand
10/15/24: Eric Reeves, trustee, Darfur Bar Ass’n: humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan. Our spooky, seasonally appropriate monthly Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, Pam Victor, & Jess Tyler. Ballot Question 5 –raising the minimum wage for tipped workers w/ Smith Prof Carrie Baker & Fair Wage Mass Grace McGovern. The Capitol Fools w/ writer Mark Eaton.
