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 Endgame
2.13.26—The Endgame
Max Page and Peter Enrich-Raise Up Mass Coalition on Ballot Initiatives $7 or 8 billion in cuts
John Feffer and John Berkowitz—Ukraine War End game?
Al Williams of Northampton Open Media (NOM) & Jeff Mastroianni – Executive Director (E-Media)-YouTube Censorship & Local Media Survival.
Donnabelle Casis—JooYoung Choi, AstroFuturist artist, “Quantum Soup Surfer,” at Amherst College Mead Museum.
Democracy in Peril?
Democracy in Peril?
2/12/26: Dr Adam Barsouk — Outsmarting Cancer, Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention,
Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy for a book talk with David Daley, interviewed by EIPAD Director, Chris Appy—Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
UMass Professor Epstein—Fed Reserve Investigation, Jobs Report, and Independence
Buz and Dan—Incivility in Congress, our AI Future
“Music Alone Shall Live”
2/11/26
“Music Alone Shall Live”
Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer —HOUSING, UMass Students & ICE
Chris Freeman – Iron Horse—”Music Alone Shall Live”
George Kahout — Friends of Northampton Trail & Riding Down Main street
Larry Hott—Larry’s got the Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond, & animation not just for Kids
Fighting for Change
Fighting for Change 2.10.26
Pat Duffy—5th Hampden Rep—Breaking News: AI regulation, Housing, & Spr. Museum
Sheryl L. Stanton, Superintendent, Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional School Districts—Fighting for Rural Aid Funding!
Charles Walker-Hoover & Alannah Brunt, UMass, The Beautiful Struggle, on 2/13 (NAACP Week 2026)
Duke Goldman—Will not miss the Super Bowl end, Spring Training,
Beginning Warmth, Followed by ICE and Icy
2/9/26: Megan Zinn w/ Broadside’s Roz Kreshak-Hayden: books to read & indies to support. Writers Block w/John Sayles’s on “Crucible,” Henry Ford, industrial policy & his antisemitism. Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: Bad Bunny, schools, MTA negotiations, icy roads, state aid, & financial modernization. John Bonifaz, Pres & Founder of Free Speech for People: prosecuting ICE agents, the AG, DAs, & the police.
Letting in The LIGHT
2/6/26: Your State U Max/Page-Carolyn Chou, head of Homes for All, rent control & Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on exploding health care cost
Lev BenEzra-Community Action—Peter Wingate, Director of Energy & Weatherization Programs: It’s Freezing
Salman Hameed—Mr. Universe— Science, Kids, Learning & A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Art Beat with Donnabelle Casis—Elizabeth Stone, ZRzosalyn Driscoll, Tori Lawrence, Light Being—darkness & LIGHT.
Listening & Leading
2.5.26 Corrine Coryat – candidate for 1st Franklin District—Listening & Leading.
Sheryl Stoodley (artistic dir), John Sheldon (Red Guitarist), Robin Doty (managing dir) Serious Play Theatre Ensemble: Red Guitar—Feb 11th at 8pm.
Our House w/ Representative Jim McGovern—Ice, Affordability, Elections,
Ruth Griggs previews Fat Tuesday w/ Samirah Evans & Chris Lenois
Life & Death
2/4/26 Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan: Gov Healey responds to ICE & new plan to combat sex trafficking Lora Wondoloski, Jessa McCormack, Henry Morgan—Peace Dev Fund funding the movement & Phenom’s fight to democratize higher ed. Brian Adams with UMass Professor of Public Policy Juniper Katz on renewable energy challenges and successes. Cool Films with Larry Hott on Oscar nominees for best short documentary
Conversations
2.3.26 State Senator Paul Mark—Money, Healthcare, 250th celebration, & the Pats
Super. Dr Xiomara Herman—Pelham Schools, Difficult Days Ahead
Hampshire College President Jennifer Chrisler–Financial Sustainability & the Future
Carole Bull-Do something! The journey of healing
Quite Literally
2/2/26: John Bollard: “Two Hundred Years of Protesting with Rosa Parks.” Megan Zinn w/ Bremond Berry MacDougall & Lisa Endo Cooper: publishing “lost” women authors. Sen. Jo Comerford: combatting ICE’s harms in Mass & nationwide & state finances. Nmpton Mayor GL Sciarra: If ICE comes to Hamp, snow removal, art & artists — David Rothstein, ice sculptures & the Silver Chord Bowl,
