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.
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.”
Earth Day Chase
4/17/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on the turbulent search for a school superintendent; author Andrew Boyd on “I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor;” Kathy Mulvey, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, on protesting Chase Bank in Northampton; Whatchareadin’? with 6th grader Elizabeth Galman and her mom, UMass Education Professor Sally Campbell Galman, and “Writers Block” host, Megan Zinn.
Fund Time
4/14/23: Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Max Page on UMass. tuition & fees and tax cuts; First Franklin Representative Natalie Blais, from her perspective on Ways & Means, on funding for schools and other necessities; Clare Higgins, Exec. Dir. of Community Action Pioneer Valley, on early childhood education. Then, filmmaker Julia Mintz, on “Four Winters,” a harrowing story of resistance and courage.
