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.
Talk The Talk : Players
Players
5/21/24: Larry Tye: “The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.” The Comedy Quiz: Old Toys w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman, & Ben May. Valley Players Matteo Pangallo & Chris Rohmann: Bars & the Bard. Linda Post & Mariah Swanson: Paradise City Arts Festival.
Talk The Talk: Words To Live By
Words to (Try To) Live By
5/20/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: lead & forever chemicals in our water & soil – also, downtown street construction. Eric Reeves: starvation and genocide in Darfur. Former Sen Pres Stan Rosenberg: UMass protests & life after the legislature Megan Zinn w/ Merriam-Webster Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski: the words we live by.
Talk The Talk: Subject To Debate
5/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the House’s Health Care Bill. MTA Pres Max Page: the free community college bill. Donnabelle Casis w/ Leslie Ferrin & Adam Chau on APE’s Platitude: Queer Serviceware. SPRINGFEST w/ NCMC Exec. Dir. Jason Trotta. EM Kennedy Inst CEO Adam Hinds: presidential debates.
Talk The Talk: Matters of Life & Death
DHG & Recorder Editor Dan Crowley: the flood of 1874, antisemitism in Belchertown schools, & defunding libraries. Rich Michelson w/ Emily Dickinson Museum’s Brooke Steinhauser, poets Al Salehi & Ivy Schweitzer on Emily Dickinson – today! GCC Prof Emeritus, Enviornmetnal Science, Brian Adams w/ Smith botanist Gabi Immerman & Historic Northampton’s Betty Sharpe: the 150th anniversary of the Mill River Flood. Ruth Griggs w/ band leader & vocalist Sarah Clay—live in studio—WOW!!
Now Hear This, Watch This
5/15/24: Atty John Pucci: People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump — an update & analysis. Poet Martín Espada, Nat’l Book Award-winner & UMass prof, w/ Elisa New, Director – PBS’s “Poetry in America” — WOW! Joe Ricker, Director, Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra: this season’s last performance this weekend at Bombyx. Rev Michael McSherry: climate change, pastoral counseling and God.
Here’s Our Pitch
5/14/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: the Soldiers Home, schools, & health care. SABR star Duke Goldman: pitching at 100+ mph. Educ Collab Dir Todd Gazda: middle & high school student protests. Caitlin Arnold Stephano: Farm Aid & its hotline. Cntr for New Americans Dir Laurie Millman: “Immigrant Voices.”
Aspirations & Arrests
5/13/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Paper City’s present & future: the arts, police & schools. UMass profs Amilcar Shabazz & Toussaint Losier: encampments, the Chancellor’s “last resort” & arrests. THE Lesléa Newman: her new books “Joyful Song: A Naming Story” & “Like Father, Like Son.” CSO’s Geoffrey Oldmixon: Wednesday’s Wellness Fair. Megan Zinn w/ Christopher Carlisle: Pickett’s Dream.”
Protest
Rep Natalie Blais: saving the Connecticut River. MTA Pres Max Page: turmoil at UMass. Cassandra Holden, Exec. Director Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity. Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ Jackson Katz, co-founder, Mentors in Violence Prevention.
Justice
5/9/24: Alice Levine: W. Mass. Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: Palestinians & Israelis together. GCC prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Entomologist Tawny Simisky: good & bad local bugs. Bike Day, Week & Month w/ Karl Ahrendsen & Mass Bike Comms Director Jes Slavin.
Bagels and the Existential
5/8/24: Welcome to Chester Theatre w/ Chris Rohmann, James Barry & Hero Marguerite: Larry Hott w/ Sokhen Mao: “Rebuilding the Temple” in Amherst. Hampshire prof Michael Klare: the Gaza & Ukraine wars. Shutesbury’s Michael DeChiara: sites for solar, wind farms and battery storage.
