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.
Sounds and Silence
11/2/23: Hampshire Prof. Salman Hameed on Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Atty John Pucci on Trump’s legal travails today. Brian Adams with Mass Wildlife’s Dave Wattles on black bears (super fun!). Glenn Seigel with superstar clarinetist & Amherst Coll prof Darryl Harper.
Sentences and Fragments
11/1/23: DA Dave Sullivan on protesters’ arrests and Cara Rintala’s sentence. Vietnam War poets Doug Anderson & Preston Hood on Lost War/Found Souls. Reporters Dusty Christensen on local police acting illegally and Sarah Robertson on the emergency shelters crisis. UMass prof & PERI Co-director Robert Pollin on low wage workers power.
Teach Your Children? Well,
10/31/23: Larry Hott & Andrew Leland on ”The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.” Claudia Lefko on her Ward 3 (N’hmpt) write-in candidacy. Professors Trevor Kearns & Joe Nardoni on our underfunded community colleges. Peter Whalen on insurance in a time of climate change.
Two Unconstitutional
10/30/23: Innovation Institute’s Pat Larkin & Sharron Wall on $5M UMass grant. Prof. Michael Klare on the Hamas-Israel War. Atty Tom Lesser on the unconstitutional federal marijuana law & Greenfield’s unconstitutional equity theft. UMass student Ava Hawkes on the protests & arrests. Writers Block with Megan Zinn & Suzanne Michelle Smith.
Rights! and Rights?
10/27/23: Rep. Mindy Domb on Hamas, Israel & Amherst. Teachers’ union leaders Max Page & Deb Gesualdo on strikes. Donnabelle Casis and Mollye Maxner on “A Stone’s Throw.” Scott Coen on the World Series. Rev. Carole Bull on faith in hard times. Amherst’s Paul Bockelman and Cat Newman on CRESS, police & dispatch.
Josh Silver Hosts Talk the Talk
10/26/2023: ACLUM’s Carol Rose on money in politics & digital privacy; Northampton School Committee member Aline Davis & candidate Endamian Stewart; Brian Adams with John Berryhill, Smith College Botanical Gardens; All That Jazz with Ruth Griggs & Green Street Trio’s Paul Arslanian.
Your Lying Eyes
10/25/23: Leslea Newman on “Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard.” Poets Rich Michelson, Rabbi Ben Weiner & Jena Schwartz. Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman. Valley Light Opera’s Thom Griffin & Kathy Blaisdell on Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Iolanthe.” Performance Project’s Julie Lichtenberg & Moise Jackobo on “Mother Tongue” – one night only! MHC psychology prof Mara Breen on your lying eyes—and ears.
On Thin Ice
10/24/23: Larry Hott on “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey.” The Lyme Disease Resource Center’s Nellie Wilson & Maria Malaguti on keeping yourself safe. Sci-Tech Café on ocean ice disappearing, with professors Alice Bradley & Kerstin Nordstrom. Fair Play on fair pay in sports with Duke Goldman. Friends of Hampshire County Homeless Individuals Director Krystal Randall and volunteer Brit Albritton on the unhoused here.
As We Remember Dee
10/23/23: G’fld Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on the impending election. On Black in the Valley, we mourn the passing and celebrate the life of Demetria (Dee) Shabazz with Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Carlie Tartakov and Amilcar Shabazz. The Lava Center’s Matthew Barlow on “Geological Research for Marginalized Communities,” and Megan Zinn with— coming to the Odyssey — Kim Coleman Foot on “Coleman Hill.”
Guns and Roses. Swimming the entire Connecticut. Talking with Stryker.
10/20/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on yesterday’s gun bill; MTA’s; Max Page with Hildreth Institute’s Dr. Bahar Akman Indoden & Hiba Agha on higher ed. falling enrollments; Donnabelle Casis & Amanda Morgan on the Art Salon; Kari Kastango on swimming the Connecticut Rivers’s 410 miles; superstar journalist Stryker Maguire on the present & future of his profession.
