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.
Trump This
3/5/24: Atty John Pucci: Trump’s NY hush money criminal trial. Mark Ames, Temporary Register of Hampshire Probate & Family Court. Sen Paul Mark: today’s voting & the state budget. Northampton School Comm members Karen Foster Cannon & Gwen Agna on not enough money.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
3/4/24: Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the lawsuit, Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield v. Northampton; also, liquor licenses & the ABCC. Sen Jo Comerford: school funding. Democrats Catherine Kay, Jim Nash, and Sam Hopper on tomorrow’s elections.
Before They Testify
3/1/24: Mass. Teachers Ass’n Pres Max Page on school funding. Astronomer Salman Hameed on the moon (so to speak). Donnabelle Casis w/ Tahmie Der, Human Agenda Theater. Community Action’s Clare Higgins on funding anti-poverty programs. UMass. prof Sanjay Arwade on offshore wind.
Opening Doors
2/29/2024: James Swanson on “The Deerfield Massacre”. Harvard’s atheist pastor, Greg Epstein, on life and death. GCC environmental science prof Brian Adams with UMass history prof Kevin Young on “Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won”. Ruth Griggs & Jim Olsen on The Back Porch Festival.
Words of Wisdom
2/28/24: NYT columnist John McWhorter w/ Amherst prof Ilan Stavans – Wow! Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott & Roger Sherman: “The Second Life of (63 y.o. trans woman) Jamie P”. UMass Prof Malcom Sen: racism & the environment N’hmptn Licensing Comm. Chair Natasha Yakovlvev: the liquor licenses mess.
Back from the Brink
2/27/24: Josh Silver: the War in Gaza & the 2024 election. MHC Physics Prof Kerstin Nordstrom & UMass Engineering Prof Meghan Huber: robotics, AI & us. Duke Goldman: the NFL abusing players & families. Dr. Ira Helfand & UMass. Prof Chris Appy (Ellsberg Initiative Dir): nuclear threats & Back from the Brink.
Not Your Usual Monday
2/26/24: Watermelon Wednesdays & Gypsy Jazz with founder & Director Paul Newlin. UMass Prof. Amilcar Shabazz & Amherst Councilor-at-large Elisha Walker on funding Reparations. Megan Zinn with author Rachel Lyon on “Fruit of the Dead.” Amherst poli-sci prof. Javier Corrales on “Autocracy Rising.”
Woes & Whoas
2/23/24: MTA Pres Max Page with educator & Recorder columnist Doug Selwyn on equalizing education. Donnabelle Casis with Jaq Chartier on her show with Anne Lilly, & Laura Gurten at William Bazcek Fine Arts – painting without painting, science & art. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman on Amhest4Ceasefire, school layoffs, searching for a police chief & living with potholes. Plus a Fishwrap!
You Are Being Tracked and the Data Is Being Sold
2/22/24: ACLU of Mass’ Carol Rose on the sale of location data and Trump’s prosecutions. Rev. Carole Bull on Alexei Navalny, nonviolence & inner fearlessness. Brian Adams w/ Paul’s Sugar Shack owner Paul Zononi — how the sap flows. The police chief is gone — with Gfld’s David Singer.
Coming to America & Black History Month
2/21/24: Professors Amilcar Shabazz & renowned poet & spoken-word artist Jahman Hill. Cool Films with Larry Hott: “The Niagara Movement”, “Rustin” & “How We Get Free.” Int’l Language Inst. ED Carolyn Gear w/ immigrant David Bedrettin Tokgoz. Reporter Dusty Christensen on Northampton’s school deficit & long-range planning.
