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 Lying Eyes

10/25/23: Leslea Newman on “Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard.” Poets Rich Michelson, Rabbi Ben Weiner & Jena Schwartz. Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman. Valley Light Opera’s Thom Griffin & Kathy Blaisdell on Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Iolanthe.” Performance Project’s Julie Lichtenberg & Moise Jackobo on “Mother Tongue” – one night only! MHC psychology prof Mara Breen on your lying eyes—and ears.

On Thin Ice

10/24/23: Larry Hott on “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey.” The Lyme Disease Resource Center’s Nellie Wilson & Maria Malaguti on keeping yourself safe. Sci-Tech Café on ocean ice disappearing, with professors Alice Bradley & Kerstin Nordstrom. Fair Play on fair pay in sports with Duke Goldman. Friends of Hampshire County Homeless Individuals Director Krystal Randall and volunteer Brit Albritton on the unhoused here.

As We Remember Dee

10/23/23: G’fld Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on the impending election. On Black in the Valley, we mourn the passing and celebrate the life of Demetria (Dee) Shabazz with Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, Carlie Tartakov and Amilcar Shabazz. The Lava Center’s Matthew Barlow on “Geological Research for Marginalized Communities,” and Megan Zinn with— coming to the Odyssey — Kim Coleman Foot on “Coleman Hill.”

superstar journalist Stryker Maguire and Buz Eisenberg

Guns and Roses. Swimming the entire Connecticut. Talking with Stryker.

10/20/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on yesterday’s gun bill; MTA’s; Max Page with Hildreth Institute’s Dr. Bahar Akman Indoden & Hiba Agha on higher ed. falling enrollments; Donnabelle Casis & Amanda Morgan on the Art Salon; Kari Kastango on swimming the Connecticut Rivers’s 410 miles; superstar journalist Stryker Maguire on the present & future of his profession.

Dan Crowley

War and a Piece

10/19/23: DHG & Recorder editor Dan Crowley on p.1 stories, e.g., Northampton’s Main St Redesign. Rev. Michael McSherry on biblical teachings about war. Brian Adams with Northampton Climate Director Carole Collins. Ruth Griggs with musicians’ Guy Friday, Jack Frisch.

Quaverly Rothenberg

Healing Across the Divides & Quaverly’s Cello

10/18/23: The Israel-Hamas War with Dr. Norbert Goldfield, HAtD founder. Quaverly Rothenberg, candidate for N’mptn Ward 3 City Councilor. Filmmaker Larry Hott on “The Holly.” Megan Zinn on the NEF Spelling Bee. JM Sorrell, Exec. Dir. of MA. Death with Dignity. Phil Korman, Exec. Dir. of CISA, on food & farms.

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Blight

10/17/23: Mass. Review’s Jim Hicks on war & peace. The Comedy Quiz with funny!! Maddy Benjamin & Scott Braidman. Smith prof. & Ms. magazine’s Carrie Baker with Reproductive Equity Exec. Dir. Rebecca Hart Holder. Emily Monosson on “Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic.”

Megan Zinn with GCC’s Laura Tilsley Garcia & Smith’s Velma Garcia.

Charged

10/16/23: L3 Harris peace demonstrators Clara Wagner & Zehra Parvez on the charges they now face. Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on housing. Black trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams on why “The Bodies Keep Coming.” Cancer Connection’s Chelsea Kline on the Harvest Dinner. John Berkowitz & Tom Weiner on the Ukraine War forum. Whatchya Readin’? Megan Zinn with GCC’s Laura Tilsley Garcia & Smith’s Velma Garcia.

Larry Hott

War

10/13/23: Filmmaker Larry Hotte on “Little Richard…” and “Desperate Souls…Midnight Cowboy.” Donnabelle Casis & Maggie North on the women artists exhibit, “As They Saw It.” Zeina Ashrawi Hutchinson (Arab-American Anti-Discrim. Comm.) on Hamas’ invasion & the War. Sen. Paul Mark on saving the environment.

Our Ensemble

10/12/23: Rabbi Riqi Kosovske on the Israel-Hamas War. Marjorie Kelly on “Wealth Supremacy.” Rev. Peter Kakos, Nick Mottern & Bill Dwight on war, peace, the police & the Chief. Glenn Seigel with Michele Rosewoman, leader of the 11-piece New Yor-Uba Ensemble.

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