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.
Making a Difference By Design
8/25/23: MTA Pres. Max Page on the Amherst Schools and liberal arts defunding; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, playwrights Tayla Kingston (Wam Theater) & Patrick Gabridge (Plays in Place) on “Pulling at the Roots” three plays about Northampton; Conway School trustees Bill Dwight and Mollie Babize, on its 50th anniversary and our future.
Abundance
8/24/23: ACLUM ‘s Carol Rose on Trump & the First Amendment; Rev. Carole Bull on progressive Christianity and whose bible?; Brian Adams & Nili Simhai on CBI’s Abundance Farm; Ruth Griggs with bandleader & drummer Joe Farnsworth on the upcoming Max Roach Centennial Celebration.
Wars: in Ukraine, on Drugs, in Politics
8/23/23: Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael Klare on the War in Ukraine, Russia, & BRICS; Holyoke Media News Director Natalia Munoz on the Northampton police; Franklin Co. former Rep. & Register of Probate John Merrigan on his death penalty vote, opioids, & Greenfield’s mayoral race; Buz & Bill on POST.
POSTing Up
8/22/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver on the Republican debate and Trump; Sex Matters with Dr Jane Fleishman; Fair Play with Duke Goldman on the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team –victorious despite their World Cup loss; reporter Dusty Christensen on cop discipline — the POST report, and unionizing Hadley’s big-box stores.
The Shows and Tells
8/21/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on alternatives to the armed police response; Senator Jo Comerford on her health care reform victory, finally the law! Gary Levine and Naia Tenerowicz on fighting the local gas pipeline; Isaac Mass, co-owner, Greenfield Garden Cinema, on 50th anniversary films—now showing!
Abortion, MCAS, Covid, Hoops Fame & Bears
8/18/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on abortion rights; MTA Pres. Max Page on MCAS; Donnabelle Casis with photographer Richard Getler; immunologist Jonathan Bayuk on covid now; Amherst College hoops coach Dave Hixon – now in the Hall of Fame! MA Wildlife’s Todd Olynyk & Joseph Rogers on saving our wildlife and ourselves – and bears!
A Moon Shot & All That Jazz
8/17/23: Astronomer Salman Hameed on moon missions and distant stars; a preview — “Performance 33,” Tuesday at the Pines; Rev. Michael McSherry on the death penalty; Brian Adams with Karen Foster, Exec. Dir., All Out Adventures –for all; Ruth Griggs with world famous trumpeter and bandleader Danny Jonokuchi.
Presidents on Police & Larry on acid
8/16/23: City Council Presidents Jim Nash (Northampton) & Homar Gomez (Easthampton) on policing, surveillance, & the veto override; filmmaker Larry Hott on acid and “How to Change Your Mind;” Music Director Hugh Keelan on the TUNDI Wagner Festival; journalist Dusty Christensen, who broke the story about Northampton’s arrest of Marisol Driouech.
Bearly Believable
8/15/23: Reporter Richie Davis on “Flights of Fancy, Souls of Grace;” The Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Holly Ruderman; Feminist Futures with Smith prof Carrie Baker & Donna Haighighat, CEO, Western Mass. Women’s Fund; MA Fisheries & Wildlife’s Joseph Rogers on “Da Bear;” Amherst music prof Amy Coddington on “How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop.”
Please BEAR with us
8/14/23: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on fighting fentanyl; UMass Prof. Amilcar Shabazz on reparations in Amherst & beyond; Smith Prof Emeritus Lester Little on fighting fascism; Megan Zinn with Emily Todd & Matteo Pangallo on “Teaching the History of the Book.” Plus, a black mama bear came to visit us behind the WHMP studio.
