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 Buz Eisenberg 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), Crime & Punishment (John Pucci), DA David Sullivan, Writers Block (Megan Zinn), Science and Sensibility (Brian Adams), Community Action (Clare Higgins), Righting Wrongs (ACLUM Carol Rose), State Senators Comerford & Mark, Representatives Sabadosa, Blais, 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.  

Community Action 

11/17/23: Monte Belmonte on the March. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on the legislature’s failure to pass a budget. MTA Pres Max Page on the Andover educators’ strike & unfunded contracts. Community Action’s Clare Higgins on housing. Dr. Kate Atkinson & Adriana Piantedosi on concierge medicine.  

Dan Crowley

The Front Page

11/16/23: N’hmtn Main Street Redesign & “A History of Boston” with attorney Daniel Dain. DHG & Recorder Exec. Editor Dan Crowley on big stories & the Amherst reveal. Take action! with GCC prof. emeritus Brian Adams, Susan Theberge (Climate Action Now) & Naia Tenerowicz (Spfld Climate Justice Coalition). Glenn Seigel with guitarist Jim Matus.

Young@Heart

11/15/23: A Twist & Crawl preview with Bob Cilman, Medford Boston, Helen Boston, Alycia Duffy, Ro Duffy, Emily Reardon, & Jen Polins. What’s cooking at the Cancer Connection with Paul Sustick of Paul & Elizabeth’s and Exec. Dir. Chelsea Kline.  “While we Watched” with  Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott.

School Days

11/14/23: Rep. Patricia Duffy on health care for all, guns, climate change & school receivership. SABR star Duke Goldman on the Red Sox & the World Series. Todd Gazda, Educ. Collab. E.D., on funding rural schools. Amherst School Comm. Member-Elect Sarah Marshall on Amherst schools facing a fiscal cliff.

Increase, Decrease, End, Build

11/13/23: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on voting, crime & schools. Amilcar Shabazz, Vira Douangmany Cage, & Ellisha Walker on the Dr. Demetria Shabazz Center for the Arts. Amherst prof Austin Sarat on young people losing faith in democracy. Stefan Ward-Wheaton & Ed Malachowski celebrate Valley Free Radio. Megan Zinn with James Jennings on “Wings of Red.”

Remembrances & Retrospectives

11/10/23: Rep Natalie Blais – her Veterans Day memories & legislation. MTA Pres Max Page with local union VP Julian DiGloria on the Andover educators’ strike that began today. Betsy Stone with Richard Roy on his retrospective at Art for the Soul Gallery. Nick Simmons on his repurposing wood and purposing students. Jacki Ochs & Dan Keller on “Vietnam:The Secret Agent.”

 

Joe Belmont

Stand Pat & Political Gold: Music to Our Ears

11/9/23: Political consultant Josh Silver on this week’s elections. Sports, Man! Scott Coen on the Pats. Nhmptn City Council Pres. Jim Nash on the free speech debate. Rabbi Riqi on Hamas & Israel. Brian Adams with Rusty Ingold-Smith on solar power. Ruth Griggs with fabulous guitarist Joe Belmont.

Picture This: Sights, Sounds & War

11/8/23: Cool Films with Larry Hot (“32 Sounds”- amazing!). Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art E.D.s Alexandra Kennedy & Jennifer Schantz. Live in the Studio: Forest Avenue — Eveline MacDougall, Desi Lowit, Dan Frank & John Clark. What would Daniel Ellsberg say about Israel & Gaza? with UMass prof Chris Appy & author Norman Solomon.

The Elections We Make

11/7/23: Author Jonathan Harr on “The Burial,” now on Amazon Prime. Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on the Truth School and, also, singing LIVE in the studio with Jeff Olmsted. Local trauma specialist Carter J. Carter on Gaza and Israel. Sen Paul Mark on democracy.   

This Show Flows!  

11/6/23: Sen Jo Comerford on the candidates she’s voting for & free menstruation products.; N’hmptn Mayor G.L. Sciarra on the police chief & Main Street; const. law prof Bruce Miller on keeping Trump off the ballot & guns at SCOTUS; Megan Zinn with local YA author Crystal Maldonado on “The Fall of Whit Rivera.”

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