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.  

Glen Siegal and Director David Picchi

Your Location is Being Tracked, and That Information is Being Sold

6/22/23 Kade Crockford, Director, ACLUM’s Technology for Liberty Program, on saving privacy; Rev. Carole Bull on life after death; GCC”s Brian Adams and NHS’s Fred Morrison on bees and birds; Jazz in July with Glen Siegal and Director David Picchi.

American Jihadist

Festival, Film, & War

6/21/23: Jim Hicks, Massachusetts Review editor, on James Baldwin, prison, and Russia; Northampton-based filmmakers Larry Hott & Jody Jenkins on “American Jihadist;” defense expert Michael Klare on Ukraine, China & nukes; Green River Festival Director Jim Olsen – come celebrate!

 

Smith College Professor Carrie Baker

Demonstrate! Save Reproductive Freedom!

6/20/23: The organizers of Saturday’s Life Without Roe rally: high school junior Alice Jenkins and MHC student Naoise Grybko; Comedy Quiz (on nutty sports) with Maddy Benjamin, Christina Stevens & David Millgram; “Feminist Futures” with Professor Carrie Baker, Marisol Pierce Bonifaz & Rex Hanneke; Shutesbury teacher Kimberly Salditt Poulin on the art of teaching reading. 

Fareforward with Love, Reverend and Rabbi

6/19/23: Chris Appy, Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at UMass, on Ellsberg’s legacy; The Reverend & the Rabbi with Peter Ives, Justin David, Carol Bull, Andrea Ayvazian, Mike McSherry & Riqi Kosovske; Atty John Pucci on Trump’s Mar-a Lago cases; Megan Zinn plays “Watcha’ Reading?” with UMass educator Kate Hudson.

No Ifs, Ands, or Butts

6/16/23: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on demonstrations and legislation; MTA Pres Max Page on affirmative action; Donnabelle Casis with Mike Medeiros on the Story/Sound Arbor at A.P.E.; CISA E.D. Phil Korman on saving local farms; Sports,Man! Scott Coen on the Red Sox & Yankees.

All That Jazz

6/15/23: UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz on “Retracing the Journey of Slavery;” Rep. Jim McGovern on craziness and dysfunction in Washington; GCC Prof Brian Adams with Hilltown Land Trust’s Sarah Welch on hikes and beauty here; Glenn Siegel with Jazz a la Mode’s Tom Reney.

The Flow of Life

6/14/23: LIVE in the Studio — Django in June—the music is amazing! Astronomer Salman Hameed and Josh Silver on UFOs! Travel company CEO Peter Jones on planes, trains, automobiles, Paris & London. Former Northampton  City Council President Bill Dwight on city life, country squiring and flowing toilets.

Execution

6/13/23: Robert & Jenn Meeropol on this anniversary of the execution of Robby’s parents; Ethel & Julius Rosenberg; Duke Goldman on the recent revolution in baseball; Todd Gazda, Educ Collaborative Exec. Dir., on combatting hate in schools; Norman Solomon on “ War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.”

Author Author Mayor Professor

6/12/23: Holyoke Mayor Josh Garcia on the Victory Theater, & the police; UMass prof Amilcar Shabazz on Juneteenth; Elizabeth Loudon on “A Stranger in Baghdad” at the Broadside; Megan Zinn with Jeremy Bushnell on “Relentless Melt” at the Odyssey.

Presidents and Representatives

6/9/23: MTA Pres. Max Page on fair taxes; Rep. Natalie Blais on activist kids, libraries & public transit; Donnabelle Casis and Kim Carlino on Tiny Art for All; Atty Terry Lodge on nuclear waste sites; constitutional law expert Bruce Miller on SCOTUS’s voting rights decision and Trump’s indictment.

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