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.  

Affirmative Action

6/26/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on immigrants and housing; Michael Klare on Ukraine & Russia; professor Amilcar Shabazz on affirmative action & diversity at UMass; child development expert Kim John Payne on kids & screens; Megan Zinn with Boston Globe Books Editor Francie Lin.

ALTAR TO An Erupting Sun

6/23/23:  Rep. Mindy Domb on voting rights & sex ed; MTA’s Max Page on student debt & affirmative action; ArtBeat’s Donnabelle Casis with Talya Kingston on WAM; Chuck Collins on “Altar to an Erupting Sun;” Amherst gov’t officials Paul Bockelman & Brianna Sunryd on cops and CRESS.

Glen Siegal and Director David Picchi

Your Location is Being Tracked, and That Information is Being Sold

6/22/23 Kade Crockford, Director, ACLUM’s Technology for Liberty Program, on saving privacy; Rev. Carole Bull on life after death; GCC”s Brian Adams and NHS’s Fred Morrison on bees and birds; Jazz in July with Glen Siegal and Director David Picchi.

American Jihadist

Festival, Film, & War

6/21/23: Jim Hicks, Massachusetts Review editor, on James Baldwin, prison, and Russia; Northampton-based filmmakers Larry Hott & Jody Jenkins on “American Jihadist;” defense expert Michael Klare on Ukraine, China & nukes; Green River Festival Director Jim Olsen – come celebrate!

 

Smith College Professor Carrie Baker

Demonstrate! Save Reproductive Freedom!

6/20/23: The organizers of Saturday’s Life Without Roe rally: high school junior Alice Jenkins and MHC student Naoise Grybko; Comedy Quiz (on nutty sports) with Maddy Benjamin, Christina Stevens & David Millgram; “Feminist Futures” with Professor Carrie Baker, Marisol Pierce Bonifaz & Rex Hanneke; Shutesbury teacher Kimberly Salditt Poulin on the art of teaching reading. 

Fareforward with Love, Reverend and Rabbi

6/19/23: Chris Appy, Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at UMass, on Ellsberg’s legacy; The Reverend & the Rabbi with Peter Ives, Justin David, Carol Bull, Andrea Ayvazian, Mike McSherry & Riqi Kosovske; Atty John Pucci on Trump’s Mar-a Lago cases; Megan Zinn plays “Watcha’ Reading?” with UMass educator Kate Hudson.

No Ifs, Ands, or Butts

6/16/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on demonstrations and legislation; MTA Pres Max Page on affirmative action; Donnabelle Casis with Mike Medeiros on the Story/Sound Arbor at A.P.E.; CISA E.D. Phil Korman on saving local farms; Sports,Man! Scott Coen on the Red Sox & Yankees.

All That Jazz

6/15/23: UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz on “Retracing the Journey of Slavery;” Rep. Jim McGovern on craziness and dysfunction in Washington; GCC Prof Brian Adams with Hilltown Land Trust’s Sarah Welch on hikes and beauty here; Glenn Siegel with Jazz a la Mode’s Tom Reney.

The Flow of Life

6/14/23: LIVE in the Studio — Django in June—the music is amazing! Astronomer Salman Hameed and Josh Silver on UFOs! Travel company CEO Peter Jones on planes, trains, automobiles, Paris & London. Former Northampton  City Council President Bill Dwight on city life, country squiring and flowing toilets.

Execution

6/13/23: Robert & Jenn Meeropol on this anniversary of the execution of Robby’s parents; Ethel & Julius Rosenberg; Duke Goldman on the recent revolution in baseball; Todd Gazda, Educ Collaborative Exec. Dir., on combatting hate in schools; Norman Solomon on “ War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.”

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