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.
Politics, Ethics, Prisons & Rights
5/1/23: Senator Jo Comerford on the Death With Dignity Act; Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra on the sagas of Main Street — the bear in the tree, the plans, and Pride; constitutional law professor Bruce Miller on Law Day, Supreme Court ethics & transgender rights; Megan Zinn and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on “Chain Gang All-Stars,” prisons & dystopia.
27,000 Convictions
4/28/23: Rep. Mindy Domb on schools and the UMass protest; MTA President Max Page; Donnabelle Casis with Ashley Eliza Williams on rocks, squids, clouds, and other beings; world renown Tony Trischka on his Earl Scruggs tribute at the Drake; Attorney Joseph Bernard on his win at Mass. highest court this week, vacating 27,000 convictions.
Celebrate!
4/27/23: The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy with Director Christian Appy; Levellers Press 40th anniversary with worker-owner Randy Zucco; Rev. Carol Bull on meditation; peecycling! –with Brian Adams + Gretchen Savenson & Julia Cavicchi from the Rich Earth Institute; Happy Birthday, Drake, Ruth Griggs & manager, Lincoln Allen.
The Power of Truth
4/26/23: “The Power of Truth,” this weekend at Bombyx, with prof. Ousmane Power-Greene, Michael Lawrence-Riddell and Peter McQuillan; Northampton Ed. Foundation’s Trivia Bee with Lisa Papademetriou and Megan Zinn; sex educator Dr. Jane Fleishman on bisexuality; Eveline MacDougall on Fiery Hope’s Saturday concert; Amherst Council Finance Committee Chair Andy Steinberg on $, schools, & the vote.
Civil Rights Icons
Due to a computer malfunction, we were unable to record Talk the Talk on 4/25/2023. We recovered the part of the interview with author and filmmaker John Sayles, who is coming to the Montague Bookmill and the Shea, and he discusses working with Harry Belafonte.
Policing, Politics, and Money
4/24/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on policing, politics, and municipal money. Where’s your radar? Sci-Tech Café with Professors Kerstin Nordstrom (MHC) and Aaron Rubin (Smith). The $97.5 million dollar question—the big vote on schools in Amherst has begun—with Councilor Anna Devlin Gauthier. Edit this: Writers Block with Megan Zinn and MacMillan Production Editor Susannah Noel.
Pride is Back!
4/21/23: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on trans and abortion rights; Natalia Muñoz on the mass resignation of NEPM’s Latino Advisory Board; Donnabelle Casis and Tiffany Hilton on the Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail this weekend; from the DA’s office — Rachel Senecal on Prescription Drug Take Back Day — Saturday; Hampshire Pride Director Clay Pearson on upcoming Hampshire Pride-May 6; Maya van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments –has the time come for the Massachusetts constitution?
Hypnotized
4/20/23: Gazette and Recorder Executive Editor Dan Crowley on the Easthampton school superintendent brouhaha; Smith astronomy professor James Lowenthal and his class on tomorrow’s NightFest in Northampton; Edwards Church Rev. Michael McSherry on gun violence; Professor Brian Adams and Ted Muszynski on hypnosis; Glenn Siegel and Ken Vandermark, superstar musician and MacArthur Fellow, performing with his band tonight at Hawks & Reed.
Breaking Northampton News
4/19/23: Connecticut River Defenders Paki Wieland & Priscilla Lynch on Sunday’s protest against relicensing the Northfield power plant; Rich Michelson on “Sleeping as Fast as I Can”— book launch Sunday; Larry Hott on his documentary “The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights;” UMass Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) Director Hoang Phan and students Gabriel Futterman and Ava Hawkes on the 50th anniversary; Northampton City Council President Jim Nash announces he won’t run for re-election and discusses water rates, reparations, and a new city speed limit.
Grand Delusions, a Comedy Quiz, and Shortchanged Schools
4/18/23: “Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East” –with counter-terrorism expert, Steven Simon; then, funny animals—it’s our Comedy Quiz– with the Happier Valley Comedy cast; Educational Collaborative Exec. Dir. Todd Gazda on why many schools are shortchanged; Michael Ruskin on his parents “The Vow: A Love Story and the Holocaust.”
