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.
Hampshire Closes & What Lives
Hampshire Closes & What Lives
4/17/26: Jacqueline Hayden (Hamp Coll prof) & Lilly Hayden Daiber (Hampshire Coll alum): mourning the closing & celebrating what lives on.
Lindsay Sabadosa: Hampshire Coll, ed funding & tough choices.
Amherst prof Austin Sarat: Hampshire students, unhinged Trump, the War & murder.
Larry Hott: the Movement Voter Project.
ArtBeat w/ Kahli Hernandez & Imo Imeh: revolutionary art.
Ticks & Stars
Ticks & Stars
4/16/26: Immunologist Dr Jonathan Bayuk: flu, measles, covid, Lyme, EEE & West Nile.
“Young@Heart Meets Y@H NYC:” local stars Bob Cilman & Sonya Nieto w/ NYC stars Evette Mercedes, Patrick McCarthy & Wayne Brockman.
MTA Pres Max Page: the House budget just dropped.
“An All-Star Klezmer Evening” w/ Jake Shulman-Ment & Ira Temple.
Gld Recorder & DHG Ex Ed Dan Crowley: breaking news, overrides & Hampshire Coll closing.
A Taxing Show
A Taxing Show
4/15/26: Bill & Brian on Hampshire College Closing after 56 years – sad ending
Reader to Reader w/ David Mazor: Saturday’s book drive for young readers—can you help?
Northampton attorneys David Hoose & Ryan Shiff: the Anthony Baye arson case & reasons for release.
ServiceNet’s Shawn Robinson & Maribeth Ritchie: amazing farms & farming.
Larry Hott w/ Issac Solotaroff:”Born to Bowl” — funny and fantastic.
Questions
Questions
4/14/26: Rep Patricia Duffy: bell-to- bell school cell-phone bans? & data privacy.
Hadley School Super Anne McKenzie: experience with cell phones? & AI.
“Be Seriously Scared” w/ Chris Appy, Founder, Ellsberg Initiative for Peace & Democracy, Larry J. Tish & Michael Dwyer: fun with nukes?
Duke Goldman: how about those Sox? a/k/a a Twins killing.
Sharp Attitudes
Sharp Attitudes
4/13/26: Eric Nakajima, Holyoke’s Planning & Econ Dev Dir: Gateways.
Author Jennifer Acker on “Surrender,” Tuesday at the Odyssey.
Dr. Jane Fleishman: elders & intimate relationships & dating.
S#arp Attitude-THE UMass women’s a cappella group-LIVE in the studio: the Manna event.
Darkness and Light
Darkness and Light
4/10/26: MTA Pres Max Page w/ UMass Prof & PRIM candidate Lenore Paladino: handling $130 Billion, safeguarding retirement.
Night Fest Saturday April 18 w/ Catherine Moriarity & Don Darnell.
Fix and repair your stuff at Smith Voc — with David Starr.
Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron: the horrifying mega media marriage with Trump presiding.
The fight for cell-phone free schools w/ Emily Boddy.
Hut x3—SCDT performance this weekend w/ Jennifer Polins, Cameron Childs & Donnabelle Casis.
Bad News, Good News
Bad News, Good News
4/9/26: Congressman Seth Moulton: the war, the President, the Congress, the death & destruction.
Bonnie Heiple, Mass. Comm of Dept of Env Protection: $1.16 Billion for cities and towns.
Bill & Buz on the War & MHC’s $3 Million contribution to So Hadley.
Ruth Griggs w/ David Picchi: his upcoming concert at the Drake & UMass Jazz in July.
Blowing in the Wind
Blowing in the Wind
4/8/26: Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Greismer: fires, housing & volunteer boards.
The Academy of Music’s Melanie Slabaugh on the “Let’s Hear It” campaign.
Hamp’s Asst Dir, Planning & Sustainability, Sarah LaValley & Mass Audubon’s Tom Lautezenheiser: rewilding the Pine Grove Golf Course.
Larry Hott on “Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” and “Summer of Soul.”
Transparent Marks
Transparent Marks
4/7/26: Sen Paul Mark: the supplemental budget vote tomorrow & more $ for education.
Best-selling author Nathan Edmondson: “The Master: A Novel of Golf and Death.”
MTA Pres Max Page w/ Matthew Scheffler: investing $130 billion—the public employees pension fund, its benchmarks, & the fight for transparency.
Professors Amilcar Shabazz & Idris Robinson: the Black experience in America today.
The Forest and the Trees
The Forest and the Trees
4/6/26: Treehouse’s Erica Couster (CEO) & Lynn Muth (community member) & Tara Brewster GSB VP & Dir of Philanthropy: foster care, community & the Runway 5K.
Cammie McGovern: “The last Letters of Sally and Walter”— love in a retirement community.
MHC Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing Mariah Rigg: “Extinction Capital of the World.”
Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the school budget & Picture Main Street.
