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.
Your Words Matter
3/27/24: Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans with Merriam Webster’s John Morse. Sexologist Dr. Jane Fleishman: why do relationships last? Filmmaker Larry Hott: “The Karen Carpenter Story” & “32 Sounds.” Dr. Dan Siddiqui, Dir, the Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson: treatments & realistic hope.
Fires
3/26/24: Josh Silver: third parties & the 2024 race. Prof. Kerstin Nordstrom (MHC) & Prof. Kate Follette (Amherst): taking photos of planets being born. Duke Goldman: Honoring Caitlin Clark & also, NFL players’ dementia. Sarah Weinberger & Mona Shadi: Easthampton’s Cease Fire Resolution.
Unalone
2/25/24: ACLU of Mass.’ Carol Rose: abortion & SCOTUS. Sec. of Housing & Livable Communities, Ed Augustus: in Nh’pton & Amherst today. Amilcar Shabazz & Pat Ononibaku: Amherst ARPA funds unfairly dispersed. Rich Michelson w/ amazing poet and Smithie, Jessica Jacobs. Megan Zinn w/ Jenny Hansell & Shoshana Marchand on “Dreams So Fleeting.”
Celebrate Life
3/22/24: Rep Mindy Domb: her re-election, state’s $ woes & potholes. Donnabelle Casis w/ Siddhartha Shah, Director, the Mead Art Museum: “Trópico es Político: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime.” Scarlet Sock Foundation: founder Margaret Russo w/ Bd members Emily Ditkovski & Kelsey Flynn – CELEBRATE!
Pardon Me: Gov. Maura Healey on This Show
3/21/24: DHG & Glfd Recorder Editor Dan Crowley on girls’ sports & op-ed letters. Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: her recent three weeks in Israel. Ruth Griggs w/ bassist Lynn Lovell: her upcoming AoM performance. Gov. Maura Healey on pardoning thousands convicted of marijuana possession.
Big Questions
Greenfield Community College VP of Workforce Development, Kristen Cole. Rev Mark Seifried of Haydenville Congregational Church. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen asks, Why wasn’t this Northampton cop fired? UMass Prof Charmaine Nelson, Dir of Slavery North Initiative.
Filling in the Holes
3/19/24: Live from Tandem Bagel: Cool Films with Larry Hott: “Remembering Gene Wilder.” Spring? The Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Amherst schools on the fiscal cliff? School Comm. member Jennifer Shiao responds. “The Celtification of Emily Dickinson” with Rosie Caine & Robert Boulrice.
Justice
3/18/24: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: school funding. Atty Luke Ryan on erroneous convictions. Hon. Michael Ponsor, federal judge and novelist, on “Point of Order.” Northampton School Superintendent Dr. Portia Bonner: schools teetering on a fiscal cliff.
Occupations
3/15/24: Activists Paki Wieland, Priscilla Lynch & Nick Mottern: occupying Rep Jim McGovern’s Northampton office. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on Gaza & permissible use of earned sick time. Donnabelle Casis w/ Lucia Monge: the natural world recycled. Kennedy Institute for U.S. Senate CEO Adam Hinds. David Knowles w/ Producer-Director Jean Koester on “The Cemetery Club.”
Million Dollar Questions
3/14/24: Greenfield Acting Police Chief Todd Dodge: the $1Million+ race discrimination verdict against the Dept. Rev. Michael McSherry on the afterlife. Brian Adams with forester Lincoln Fish: our trees, ourselves. Ruth Griggs w/ UMass Professor of Trombone Dave Sporny.
