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.  

GTMO!

2/3/23: Buz and Bill on yesterday’s transfer of Magid Kahn from Guantanamo; Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Max Page and Vice President Deb McCarthy on the big news about MCAS; the fabulous women sports coach Sherry Webb on local girls and women’s sports; and The Good Thing with Jeff Napolitano.

Our House with Congressman Jim McGovern

2/2/23 Congressman Jim McGovern on gun violence, police reform legislation and the debt limit fight; criminal defense and civil rights attorneys David Hoose and Luke Ryan on police strike forces; Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on reparations; Brian Adams with landscape designer Brain Wormser; “Take Five” with Glenn Siegel and trumpeter Joe Magnerelli.

Ellsberg, Pot Shops, Alzheimer’s and Culomba

2/1/23: Chris Appy, UMass Professor of History and Director of the Ellsberg Initiative, on Daniel Ellsberg. war, the Espionage Act, and whistleblowing; Garrick Perry, Ward 4 Northampton City Councilor on the new pot shop ordinance; Meghan Lemay, from the Alzheimer Ass’n, on the signs of dementia and what to do; and LIVE IN THE STUDIO—six members of Culomba—they sing beautiful harmonies – it’s incredible music—a preview of their concert this weekend.

Calls from Prison; Reparations in Amherst

1/31/23: Peter Wagner, Exec. Director of the Prison Policy Initiative, on calls from prisons; Dave Wattles, from Mass. Wildlife, on the black bears in our backyards; UMass. Amherst professor Amilcar Shabazz and Amherst Town Councilor Michele Miller on reparations; Play Bill with Jackie Walsh and actors Peter Evangalista and Sara Linares on “Native Gardens,” now at the Majestic.

Political Gold with Josh Silver on Talk the Talk

1/30/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver, former CEO of Represent Us, on Trump and other Republican presidential contenders; War and Peace with Michael Klare, Nation magazine Defense Correspondent, on the state of the War in Ukraine; Professor Richard Wolff on the debt ceiling and “The Sickness Is the System;” and Writer’s Block with Megan Zinn and local Sci-fi author James Cambias on his new book, “The Scarab Mission.”

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