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.
Wars
1/16/24: Michael Klare on Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen & Taiwan. Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Paul McNeil. Prof Carrie Baker with Safe Passage E.D. Marianne Winters. E’hmptn Mayor Nicole LaChappelle on DEI, voc. ed. & the superintendent search.
Disaster Relief
1/12/24: Rep Natalie Blais: on-line abuse & disaster relief. MTA Pres Max Page: book bans & a living wage. Celebrate! Lisa Thompson, Kathy Couch & Kelly Silliman: 33 Hawley. Atty Joe Schneiderman: the SJC & affordable housing. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Trump & us.
Free Speech, No Trump
1/11/24: Atty John Bonifaz, President, Free Speech for People: keeping Trump off the ballot. Rev. Andrea Ayvazian: separation of church & state & her recent benediction. Immunologist Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: Covid & other health threats today. Glenn Seigel with the fabulous Roger Clark Miller: Friday’s Hawks & Reed gig.
Quite the Ride
1/10/24: Northampton Mayor G.L. Sciarra. Cool Films: Larry Hott has two recommendations. “2.5 Minute Ride” @ AoM with Mary Beth Brooker & Allie Wittner. Brian Adams with Jenny Powers, Science Dir., Spf’d Museums. No More Guantanamos with founder Nancy Talanian & atty/prof Bruce Miller.
Predictions
1/9/24: Rep Pat Duffy: budget cuts and Fair Share. SABR star Duke Goldman: Red Sox & NYY in 2024. Ed. Collab. E.D. Todd Gazda: bullying in schools. Amherst BID Dir. Gabrielle Gould: making downtown flourish.
A New Library
1/8/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: school receivership, the police & snow. UMass. Prof Amilcar Shabazz: MLK & the holiday. Constitutional law prof. Bruce Miller: the Trump disqualification case at SCOTUS. Megan Zinn & Lisa Prolman, Ass’t Dir., Greenfield Public Library: why libraries matter.
Taxing Times
1/5/24: MTA Pres. Max Page: a police search for a book in a local school. Astronomer Salman Hammed: flights to asteroids & the moon. Donnabelle Casis and Heid Erdrich: Indigenous art at the Meade. Community Action’s Rebecca Bannasch: $ back from the IRS. Amherst Town Mg’r Paul Bockelman: potholes & schools.
Girls to the Front & Soulful Jazz
1/4/24: Rep. Jim McGovern on war & peace & Biden. Stone Church’s Erin Scaggs & Alouette Batteau: women in the music industry. Prof. Brian Adams & climate activist Russ Vernon Jones: the failed COP conference. Ruth Griggs & NMH Music Program Director, composer & saxophonist Ron Smith — LIVE!
Happy New Year?
1/3/24: D.A. David Sullivan: Should Trump be excluded from state ballots? . Larry Hott highly recommends “Still: A Michael J. Foxx Movie” & “A Still Small Voice.” Dusty Christensen, the Shoestring’s Investigative Editor, on climate change here. Sen. Paul Mark on guns & housing.
Woman: Revisited
1/2/24: Insurrection: former U.S. atty John Pucci on SCOTUS & Trump. Sen Jo Comerford on housing, immigration & her “Blue Envelope” bill. Silas Kopf faux Northampton Mayor. The new Massachusetts Review: — “Woman: Revisited” with editors Shailja Patel, Emily Wojcik, & Eddie Clifford.
