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.
Bad News, Good News
7/15/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: the presidential campaign and housing- building for success. Marty Wohl, Co-President, the Northampton Education Foundation: money for enriching students’ lives & education. Megan Zinn with Tammy Greenwood: “The Still Point”.
Testing, Testing
7/12/24: MTA Pres Max Page & Fair Test Ex Dir Harry Feder: MCAs & alternatives. Donnabelle Casis & Cima Khademi: her Easthampton City Arts show. Margie Riddle: the League of Women Voters – books & voter protection. Karuna Center’s Polly Byers & Healing Across the Divides’ Norbert Goldfield: Israel, Palestine & humanity.
CHOSEN
7/11/24: Prof Rachelle Winkle-Wagner: “The Chosen We: Black Women’s Empowerment in Higher Education.” Megan Zinn: selling romance. Photographer Joe Wallace: “Remnants” in Turners Falls. Amherst author Betsy Hartmann: “Last Place Called Home” and the opioid crisis.
Grabbing Power, Making History & Nuclear War
7/10/24: Barry Werth, author of “31 Days:” presidential immunity and succession. Filmmaker Larry Hott: “Food, Inc. 2” and “The Grab.” London-based journalist Stryker Maguire: Trump 2025, the view from Britain and Europe. Author Annie Jacobsen: “Nuclear War: A Scenario” – the NYT bestseller.
Finding Our Way
7/9/24: Rep Pat Duffy: Biden’s candidacy. maternal health, home equity theft, data privacy & reproductive rights. Duke Goldman: impossible baseball feats & the Red Sox’s Impossible Dream — again? Educator Todd Gazda: cell phones in the classroom. Way Finders CEO Keith Fairey: housing here & now.
Truth Way
7/8/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Biden’s candidacy, crime & schools. UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz: reparations & renaming Rt 9 Sojourner Truth Way. UMass Prof & Dir of Cybersecurity Inst Brian Levine: social media’s dangers to kids & warning labels. Megan Zinn w/ Jendi Reiter, Northampton-based author of “Origin Story.”
Busted
7/3/24: DA David Sullivan: Trump’s immunity, Biden’s replacement. Eric Reeves: massacres & mass starvation in Darfur. UMass Poli-Sci prof Raymond La Raja: his Boston Globe op-ed on Biden; the right-wing surge in France. Reporter Dusty Christensen: busting the Mass. Cannabis Ctrl Comm; labor charges against Smith.
Saving Democracy, Rights, & Forests
7/2/24: Atty John Pucci, Buz & Bill on SCOTUS’ granting Trump immunity for his crimes. Sen Paul Mark: should Biden step aside; also, the $6B housing bond bill & the right to read books in schools & libraries. Brian Adams w/ Mass Audubon’s Andrew Randazzo: saving our local forests.
Fellow Citizens
7/1/24: Sen Jo Comerford: presidential debate, affordable housing & climate. Silversthorne Theater’s Gina Kaufmann & Director Michelle Ong-Hendrick on “Bulrusher”. Ctr For New Americans ED Laurie Millman, paralegal Harleen Multani, & Citizen Basil Kibakuli on July 4th naturalization ceremony. Megan Zinn & Ben Shattuck: “The History of Sound”
Your Ballot Yourself
6/28/24: Rep. Mindy Domb: THE debate & yesterday’s votes. MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: replacing MCAS as grad req’t. Donnabelle Casis w/ Brantner DeAtley: visionary artists. Josh Silver autopsies the Biden’s debate performance. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman & Comms Mgr Samantha Giffen: school & library funding.
