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.
Stormy?
5/7/24: Atty John Pucci on Trump’s hush money trial. Environmentalist Sarah Lamagna: “Swimming Holes New England.” Sen Paul Mark: budget fights. Tapestry Health CEO Mavis Nimoh: STIs, harm reduction & reasons for hope.
Monarchs
5/6/24: Sen Jo Comerford: $ for K-12 and higher ed. Smith prof & author Naila Moreira: “The Monarchs of Winghaven.” Live in Studio: Ukes for Ukraine w/ Terry Nagel & Jimmy Burgoff. Megan Zinn w/ prof Cathie Mercier, curator, “Pictures at Play …” at the Carle.
Taking Flight
5/3/24: MTA Pres Max Page, VP Deb McCarthy & educator Kathy Greeley, author, ” Testing Education: A Teacher’s Memoir.” Astronomer Salman Hameed: flights to Europa & the far side of the moon, Donnabelle Casis w/ Chris Ferry: Easthampton Film Festival. Clay Pearson, Director, Northampton Pride. Clare Higgins: student protests. AANHPI Comm’r & UMass history prof Richard Chu: AANHPI Heritage Month.
Our House
5/2/24: Congressman Jim McGovern on antisemitism, Speaker? Johnson, & Ukraine. Atty John Pucci on Trump’s trial & contempt. Brian Adams w/ UMass Urban Agriculture expert, Ibrahim Ali: food for all. Ruth Griggs w/ Interstellar Medium’s Jahian Cooper-Monize: rhythm and jazz.
Coming to Western Mass? A HUGE Toxic Waste Dump!
5/1/24: Lee Select Bd Chair Bob Jones: the GE & Monsanto toxic dump. Atty Richard Cole: innocent people serving 25 years in Mass. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman on the police, CRESS, the (doomed?) library & schools. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: two local corruption stories.
Care to Bet on the Future?
4/30/24: Holocaust Museum President Bernard Cherkasov, & VP Kelley Szany: genocide & Gaza. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: the UMass encampment. Larry Hott: “Rebuilding the Temple.” Duke Goldman: young people & sports gambling. Big Brothers Big Sisters 14th Annual Daffodil. Environmentalist Court Dorsey: No Assault & Batteries in western Mass.
Author! Author!
4/29/24: Amherst prof & Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans: “Daniel and Ismail.” Lyza Fennel, MICA Founder: “M/Others … Art for Change.” Jewish Activist(s) for Immigration Justice Dina Friedman: “Here in Sanctuary – Whirling.” Megan Zinn w/ Emily Crowe, Penguin Random House sales manager.
Laureates
4/26/24: Reps Mindy Domb, Natalie Blais & Pat Duffy on herds, gaggles, budgets & parliaments. U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon at Smith: ArtBeat w/ the Poetry Center’s Matt Donovan & Jen Blackburn. Atty Steven Schwartz: Mass. nursing home residents coming home! Silas Kopf: Riverside Industries’ auction tonight!
Supreme Anxiety
4/25/24: ACLUM E.D. Carol Rose: will SCOTUS criminalize poverty, free Donald Trump & enshrine fetal personhood? Edwards Church Rev Michael McSherry: free? will. GCC science prof emeritus Brian Adams w/ Sadie Forsythe, climate anxiety therapist. All That Jazz: John Anz gigging with pianist Andrew Wilcox.
Hear This
4/24/24: Amherst prof Ilan Stavans: Point/Counterpoint featuring Ruth Ozeki. Sex Matters w/ Dr. Jane Fleishman on consent. CDH’s Jennifer Crain & Karen Miller: hospice care. Larry Hott: “The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights & “Rising Voices … the Lakota Language.”
