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.
What’s the Rap?
2/13/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: school funding & receivership. SABR star Duke Goldman: Red Sox, NYY & the first woman MLB umpire. Ed. Collab’s Todd Gazda: our schools need money. UMass prof. Amilcar Shabazz w/ spoken word artist & Black Artistic Freedom (AF) Conf. organizer, Amani Wallace.
Schools, Beer, Prison & Romance
2/12/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: school receivership & more. Amilcar Shabazz w/ Black Business Assoc Amherst Chair Pat Ononibaku & White Lion Brewing’s Ray Berry. Prison Radio’s Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu-Jamal. Megan Zinn with romance writer Susan Elizabeth Phillips: “Simply the Best”.
More than 3 Rs: Reparations, Resiliency, Reproductive Rights, Road Repairs, Revenue, Teachers Right (?) to Strike
2/9/24: Rep Natalie Blais: road repairs, revenue & reparations. MTA Pres Max Page: teachers’ right(?) to strike. Donnabelle Casis with Karen Webb: the exhibit “Queer Voices.” Smith profs Carrie Baker & Loretta Ross – freedom fighters! SCMA Dir. Jessica Nicoll: amazing exhibits — now free.
Leaving House and Home
2/8/24: Rep Dan Carey on leaving the State House, running at home. Rabbi David Seidenberg on the Israel-Hamas War. Celebrate the Asian Lunar New Year with Emma Chen-Banas, Michelle Woo & Clifford Larsen. The City’s Alm House with Historic Northampton’s Laurie Sanders & Fred Morrison.
Food for Thought
2/7/24: DA David Sullivan: local opioid settlement funds going unused. Cool Films with Larry Hott: the Oscar nominations. Brian Adams with Maggie D’Amour on Big Y & sustainability. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: pesticide (mis) use locally & public workers’ right (?) to strike.
No Immunity!
2/6/24: John Pucci explains the federal cases against Trump. Dan and Buz schooling on the budget shortfall. Sen Paul Mark explains how the sausage gets made. Big Bro Big Sis fundraiser with Anne Walsh, Tara Brewster, & Silas Kopf. Wes Blixt on GCC’s Senior Symposia.
We Don’t Need No Education & Memory and Grieving
2/5/24: Northampton Mayor G.L. Sciarra on opioid settlement funds, & school budget deficits. Sen Jo Comerford explains the financial challenges facing schools. WNEU Law Prof Bruce Miller on TX Gov Abbott’s usurpation of the federal authority on the border. Megan Zinn & Anne Pinkerton, local author of Were You Close? a sister’s quest to know the brother she lost.
Fly Me To the Moon!
2/2/24: MTA Pres Max Page on Newton teachers and the right to strike for public employees. Prof Salman Hameed: the Japanese Moon mission & the need for int’l collaboration on space exploration. Donnabelle Casis w/ Jason Montgomery discuss 50 Arrow Gallery. Clare Higgins celebrates 60 years of Community Action. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman talks about finances, roads, and Winterfest 2024
Remember This
2/1/24: Congressman Jim McGovern: the border, Ukraine, & Israel. Rebecca Starr, Medical Dir., Pioneer Valley Memory Care Initiative. Political Gold with Josh Silver: Trump’s trials/ our tribulations. Ruth Griggs & Paul Arslanian: Green St. Trio, Jazz Festival, upcoming gigs, workshops, & more!
Pickleball, Science, Bankers & Union Busting
1/31/24: Northampton’s Parks & Rec’s Julia Chevin: Pickleball! UMass Econ Prof Gerald Epstein: “Busting the Bankers’ Club.” GCC’s Brian Adams with Amherst Cinema’s Alex Hornbeck & George Myers: science on film. Labor lawyer Seth Goldstein, atty for the union at Trader Joe’s in Hadley.
