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.
Music Live & Secrets Revealed
6/19/24: LIVE! Choro musicians Fabio Oliveira (pandeiro), Joao Camarero (7-string guitar), Fernanda Silveira (cavaquinho), Morgana Morena (flute) WOW!! Larry Hott w/ Karen Brown “The Secrets We Keep.” Brian Adams w/ naturalist Molly Hale: porcupines, lichen & fireflies. Reporter Dusty Christensen: UMass’ dirty money & Nhmtn cop investigations.
Representatives Heroes
6/18/24: Atty John Pucci: sentencing Donald Trump & Hunter Biden. The Deep-Sea Monster Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor, Scott Braidman & you! Steve Sanderson: Green River Festival. Commonwealth Heroines Pamela Adams, Alisa Klein, Henia Lewin w/ Sen. Jo Comerford, Reps Mindy Domb & Natalie Blais.
Bump Up Against This
6/17/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: schools & threats. The Climate Change Community Forum w/ Sheryl Stoodley, John Fedder, Debanmanyu Das & Susan Theberge. Bill & Buz: bump stocks, abortion rights & SCOTUS. Megan Zinn w/ Amherst author Catherine Newman: “Sandwich,” secrets, family & funny.
Keeping On Keeping On
6/14/24: Rep Natalie Blais: revenge porn, legal parentage, farming, diversity & local heroes. MTA Pres Max Page: the $2 Billion Fair Share question. Donnabelle Casis w/ Julian Lowenthal: “Money Game.” Carrie Baker w/ 2024 Hamp Reg grad Alice Jenkins: student activism. David Detmold: our violent, racist state flag & seal.
Moving Water, Music & People
6/13/24: Serious Play’s Sheryl Stoodley, Stephanie Reyes & Marcus Neverson: “Moving Water.” Django in June’s Andrew Lawrence w/ musicians Tcha Limberger & Renaud Dardenne – LIVE! Lee Badgett: $20 million for women’s well-being. Ruth Griggs & John Anz: his father’s musical treasures performed here this weekend.
War & Pieces
6/12/24: John Berkowitz & John Feffer: tonight at Forbes – the Ukraine war. Larry Hott w/ Tom Goldscheider: Gfld Tap & Dye, the U.E. & the Red Scare. GCC science prof Brian Adams & Karen Foster, Exec. Dir., All Out Adventures: their adventures. Megan Zinn & Lisa Papademetriou: the Nhmptn Ed. Fndn Showcase.
Endings
6/11/24: Rep. Patricia Duffy: ending Holyoke’s school receivership, $6.5 Billion for housing & the Mass. Parentage Act. Duke Goldman: MLB, Aaron Judge, the Negro Leagues & the Hall of Fame. Todd Gazda: Collab for Educ. Dir: the purpose(s) of high school, community colleges & jobs. Eric Reeves: famine in Sudan and Darfur.
SITE SEEING!
6/10/24: Holyoke Mayor Josh Garcia: Preparing to end school receivership. Amilcar Shabazz w/ author Kellie Carter Jackson – “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.” Site specific plays “Pulling at the Roots” at Historic Northampton: Co-Dir Laurie Sanders w/ playwrights Talya Kingston & Patrick Gabridge. Megan Zinn w/ author Emma Copley Eisenberg: “Housemates”
Budgeting: Schools & Love
6/7/24: MTA Pres Max Page w/ N’hmptn Assoc. of School Employees Pres Andrea Egitto & MTA Training Dir Ricardo Rosa: Northampton & other school budgets. Donnabelle Casis w/ Tori Lawrence, Founder, Atland Artist Residency in Chesterfield. Clare Higgins, Exec. Dir, Community Action & Comm’r, Mass. Poverty Commission. “Jesus Queen of Heaven” w/ playwright & actor Jo Clifford, Nurse Practitioner Rebecca Stewart, & First Churches Pastor Sarah Buteux.
No Film Over These Eyes
6/6/24: Rep Jim McGovern: D-Day, immigration & Gaza. Rev Andrea Ayvazian & N’hmptn City Councilor Garrick Perry on reparations. Filmmaker Larry Hott: Super-Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock & RETROGRADE. Ruth Griggs w/ Adam Kahan, from the Oslo Freedom Forum, producer of the film “Buster Williams Bass to Infinity.”
