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.
Crafts and Art
5/31/23: Antisemitism in Massachusetts with State House News reporter Alison Kuznitz; GRADUATION! with the Literacy Project’s Judith Roberts, Tim Lovett & Amos Johnson; Diane Harr & Fran Kidder on their new show at the Oxbow; Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra on Bombyx and budgets, schools and police; the Cancer Connection with E.D. Chelsea Kline; Paul Sustick of Paul & Elizabeth’s on teaching you delicious cooking.
Performances including Bombyx
5/30/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver; Sci-Tech Café — breast milk with UMass. nutrition scientist David Sela and MHC prof Kirsten Nordstrom; Bombyx lives—with founders Cassandra Holden and Kyle Homstead; the debt ceiling with UMass economics prof Gerald Friedman; 12th Night — Shakespeare & Co @AOM with actor- director- rapper Julian Findlay.
Forward and Back
5/26/23: Rep. Mindy Domb on affordable housing & free menstrual products on public college campuses; MTA Pres. Max Page and 5th grade teacher Brenda Dunn on kids and reading; Donnabelle Casis with Easthampton Film Festival’s Chris Ferry; Bombyx Center founders Cassandra Holden and Kyle Homstead on the City’s order to cease and desist; Jeff Napolitano – reflections on W. Mass activism and WHMP.
Rights, Wrongs, Music, and Life
5/25/23: ACLU of Mass. Exec. Dir. Carol Rose on LGBTQ+ rights, drag performances, and government surveillance; Rev. Carol Bull and filmmaker Amber Bemak on life; law professor Ahmed White on “Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers;” Glenn Seigel and “Jazz a la Mode” host Tom Reney rock the house.
The Future Now
5/24/23: CBI Rabbi Justin David on his activist past and future – and ours; Larry Hott and Chris Ferry on “Greyland” in Easthampton tomorrow;” sex educator Dr. Jane Fleishman; environmentalist Karl Meyer on this weekend’s rally/protest to save the Connecticut River; UMass Biology Professor Paul Katz on the neuroscience of ageing, AI, and memory.
Democracy?
5/23/23: “The West: A New History In Fourteen Lives” with author, Professor Naoíse Mac Sweeney; Safe Passage’s Marianne Winters on the shelter closing; Wired Magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly on “Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I Had Known Earlier;” Duke Goldman on the Negro Leagues and integrating MLB; Harvard Prof. Danielle Allen on “Partners in Democracy.”
Farewell, Not Good-bye, Dear Friends
5/22/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on schools, police, the budget & the law; Black in the Valley with Carlie Tartakov, Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Demetria Shabazz, Amilcar Shabazz, Mindy Domb, & Monte Belmonte; Greenfield political observer David Singer; Megan Zinn and UMass professor & author Yvette Lisa Ndlovu on “Drinking from Graveyard Wells.”
Workers Struggles, Progressive Art, & War
5/19/23: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on legislating sex work and funding transportation; Max Page & PSU President Andrew Gorry on UMass Amherst workers’ victory; Donnabelle Casis & Mead Museum’s Lisa Crossman on “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin;” defense expert Michael Klare on the spring offensive in Ukraine; restoring the Hestia, the Northampton women’s history, Mural, with Rebecca Muller and Linda Bond.
The Beat Goes On
5/18/23: NPR (Northampton Poetry Radio) with Martin Espada, Rich Michelson & Howie Faerstein; Extra Extra with DHG and Gfld Recorder editor Dan Crowley on today’s news and tomorrow’s; Brian Adams and Brian Lapis on today’s weather and tomorrow’s and next week’s; Ruth Griggs with extraordinary percussionist Richie Barshay –wait till you hear this!
Yikes, Bikes! And Lots More
5/17/23: The Bike Breakfast with bike stars GL Sciarra, Karen Foster, George Kohout, Jonathan Brody, James Lowenthal, & Sean Condon; Larry Hott, on Saturday’s sneak preview of “The Niagara Movement;” Sophie Michaux on Tiny Glass Tavern’s “There Shall Be No More Sea;” from the Lyme Disease Resource Center– Maria Malaguti, Exec. Dir., & Nellie Wilson, on avoiding and treating Lyme.
