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.
Mayors Monday, Black in the Valley, Saving Democracy, & “Somebody’s Fool”
7/24/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxanne Wedegartner on floods, foreclosures and housing for new immigrants; Professor Amilcar Shabazz on reparations in Amherst & Northampton; Miles Taylor on “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump;” Megan Zinn with Richard Russo on “Somebody’s Fool.”
Scary Journeys
7/21/23: MTA Pres. Max Page on ed reform; Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on the floods; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Britt Ruhe on Commonwealth Murals; Maya van Rossum on Green Amendments to state constitutions; Congressman Adam Smith on “Lost and Broken: My Journey Back from Chronic Pain and Crippling Anxiety.”
Food, Floods, Photos & the Local Solar Array Fight
7/20/23: CISA E.D. Phil Korman, and Gazette Photo-Editor Carol Lollis, on the floods; Edwards Church Minister Michael McSherry on the afterlife; Brian Adams with Smart Solar Shutesbury advocates on their opposition to clearcutting for solar; Glenn Seigel with Greenfield’s world-renown musician Anna Webber.
Magic & Disappearing (?) Rights
7/19/23: Chris Rohmann & John Feffer; on “Hope I Die Before I Get Old;” ACLU Mass. E.D. Carol Rose on LGBTQ rights; E.R.nurse & MNA spokesperson Suzanne Love on mental health care here; Double Edge Theater’s Hannah Jarell, Mica Farias Gomez, & Carlos Uriona on this summer’s magic.
Fed Up
7/18/23: Andrew Morehouse, E.D., Food Bank of Western Mass. on the floods and our food; the Kingston Trio’s Mike Marvin; the Comedy Quiz with the Happier Valley Comedy folks–Maddy, Scott, Moe & Laura; Carrie Baker with Atty Jennifer Levi on GLAD’s trans rights lawsuits; UCLA prof David Myers on The Crisis of Democracy in Israel.
Veto
7/17/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle explains her veto of the reproductive health ordinance; Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-founder, Freedom from Religion Foundation; law prof Wendy Parmet on “Constitutional Contagion”– covid the Courts; Megan Zinn with Chloe Gong on “Immortal Longings.”
Devastation
7/14/23: Rep. Natalie Blais on the deluge — who’s hurting & what’s to be done? MTA Pres. Max Page on a big change in high school high stakes testing; Donnabelle Casis with photographer Nona Hatay on her AMAZING! new show; Steve Ellis, member, MA Econ. Devel. Planning Council, our region’s economic future; Sen. Paul Mark on the Green Bank & the floods; Dan Torres on preventing a corrupt former President from running again.
Raining Accusations
7/13/23: Journalist Andrew Quemere makes accusations against DA David Sullivan; Rabbi Riqi Kosovske on eternal life; Brian Adams with GCC soil scientist Tony Reiber on the downpour and its consequences; Ruth Griggs with Kristen Neville of “Blues to Green” on the upcoming fabulous S’fld Jazz & Roots Festival.
Justice?
7/12/23: Sen.Jo Comerford on flood damage to farms & SCOTUS’ damage to colleges; Smith Prof Carrie Baker on Easthampton’s pregnancy services ordinance; Paul Newlin on W. Whately’s Watermelon; Wednesdays death penalty atty Stephen Bright & James Kwak on “The Fear of Too Much Justice.”
Truth and Consequences
7/11/23: Breaking media and baseball news with Duke Goldman; Trump’s co-defendant– will he flip? with atty John Pucci; a turning point in the screenwriters strike? with Hollywood screenwriter Jacob Forman; cluster bombs in Ukraine with “War Made Easy” author Norman Solomon.
