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.
The Shows and Tells
8/21/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on alternatives to the armed police response; Senator Jo Comerford on her health care reform victory, finally the law! Gary Levine and Naia Tenerowicz on fighting the local gas pipeline; Isaac Mass, co-owner, Greenfield Garden Cinema, on 50th anniversary films—now showing!
Abortion, MCAS, Covid, Hoops Fame & Bears
8/18/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on abortion rights; MTA Pres. Max Page on MCAS; Donnabelle Casis with photographer Richard Getler; immunologist Jonathan Bayuk on covid now; Amherst College hoops coach Dave Hixon – now in the Hall of Fame! MA Wildlife’s Todd Olynyk & Joseph Rogers on saving our wildlife and ourselves – and bears!
A Moon Shot & All That Jazz
8/17/23: Astronomer Salman Hameed on moon missions and distant stars; a preview — “Performance 33,” Tuesday at the Pines; Rev. Michael McSherry on the death penalty; Brian Adams with Karen Foster, Exec. Dir., All Out Adventures –for all; Ruth Griggs with world famous trumpeter and bandleader Danny Jonokuchi.
Presidents on Police & Larry on acid
8/16/23: City Council Presidents Jim Nash (Northampton) & Homar Gomez (Easthampton) on policing, surveillance, & the veto override; filmmaker Larry Hott on acid and “How to Change Your Mind;” Music Director Hugh Keelan on the TUNDI Wagner Festival; journalist Dusty Christensen, who broke the story about Northampton’s arrest of Marisol Driouech.
Bearly Believable
8/15/23: Reporter Richie Davis on “Flights of Fancy, Souls of Grace;” The Comedy Quiz with Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Holly Ruderman; Feminist Futures with Smith prof Carrie Baker & Donna Haighighat, CEO, Western Mass. Women’s Fund; MA Fisheries & Wildlife’s Joseph Rogers on “Da Bear;” Amherst music prof Amy Coddington on “How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop.”
Please BEAR with us
8/14/23: Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on fighting fentanyl; UMass Prof. Amilcar Shabazz on reparations in Amherst & beyond; Smith Prof Emeritus Lester Little on fighting fascism; Megan Zinn with Emily Todd & Matteo Pangallo on “Teaching the History of the Book.” Plus, a black mama bear came to visit us behind the WHMP studio.
Community ARE US
8/11/23: Rep Natalie Blais on floods, farms, schools, & budget; MTA President Max Page on the fruits of the Fair Share Amendment & meeting the needs of our kids; Law Prof Jocelyn Simonson on “Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration;” Laurie Sanders & Elizabeth Sharpe on Historic Northampton’s reopening of the Shepherd Barn
Grow Food, Northampton
8/10/23: Attorney Dana Goldblatt on her 60-year-old client’s claim excessive force by Northampton Police; Victoria Christopher Murray, co-author with Marie Benedict of “The First Ladies”; Brian Adams with Alisa Klein from Grow Food Northampton; Glenn Seigel & alto saxophonist Sarah Manning
Black Mirror
8/9/23: Tom Wartenberg on his new book “Thoughtful Images”; Cool Films with Larry Hott on “American Masters Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval”; Leah Wang, Research Analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative, on what climate change means for people in prison; Brian Adams with columnist Bill Danielson on the naturalist world in western Massachusetts.
Local Heroes & The Mets
8/8/23: Recorder Reporter Domenic Poli on where to sit outside & enjoy local craft beer; Duke Goldman on the passing of local baseball historian John Bowman; Prof. Bruce Miller looks at the defense strategy of Trump lawyer John Lauro; Activists Betsy Corner & Bob Beatty on The Nelson Legacy Project, Wally, & Juanita at Woolman Hill on 8/19
