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.
Crime & War, Housing, & Amazing Music
6/7/23: D.A David Sullivan on local crime, including recent homicides; Michael Klare on the Ukraine; War; Keith Fairey (Wayfinders), Alexis Breiteneicher (Valley CDC) & Gina Govoni (Franklin Co. Reg. Housing & Redevel. Auth’y) on affordable housing; Geoffrey & Mikayla Archambeau of Conway Fine Arts preview this weekend’s West by Northwest New England Festival.
The $2.5 Billion Question
6/6/23: Trump’s impending indictments with attorney John Pucci; does Massachusetts owe the feds $2.5 billion?– we ask Senator Paul Mark; the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding program in the Amherst schools with Exec Director Polly Byers; the upcoming dance-concert at Ashfield Town Hall with Mary Witt of the O Tones.
Senator, Mayor, Professor & Author
6/5/23: Sen. Jo Comerford on lowering utility bills and making higher ed affordable; WNEU constitutional law prof Bruce Miller on the Supreme Court decision gutting the EPA; Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra on Main St., NPD, municipal salaries and the Bombyx controversy; Writers Block: Megan Zinn and Claire Fuller (at the Odyssey tomorrow) on “The Memory of Animals.”
Perspectives
6/2/23: MTA President Max Page on debt-free higher ed; Salman Hameed on the origins of the universe and UFOs; Community Action Exec. Dir. Clare Higgins on the debt ceiling deal’s impact on poor & working people; Claudia Lefko and Rutherford Platt on Monday’s Humane Urbanism panel at the Forbes.
Everything Possible
6/1/23: Florence-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on “Wild by Law” and his recent adventures on the Colorado; “Everything Possible” with Rev. Andrea Ayvazian and iconic singer-songwriter and UU minister Fred Small; it’s for the birds with GCC prof. Brain Adams and Hampshire Bird Club Veep Josh Rose; UMass jazz with Ruth Griggs and the great Avery Sharpe.
Crafts and Art
5/31/23: Antisemitism in Massachusetts with State House News reporter Alison Kuznitz; GRADUATION! with the Literacy Project’s Judith Roberts, Tim Lovett & Amos Johnson; Diane Harr & Fran Kidder on their new show at the Oxbow; Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra on Bombyx and budgets, schools and police; the Cancer Connection with E.D. Chelsea Kline; Paul Sustick of Paul & Elizabeth’s on teaching you delicious cooking.
Performances including Bombyx
5/30/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver; Sci-Tech Café — breast milk with UMass. nutrition scientist David Sela and MHC prof Kirsten Nordstrom; Bombyx lives—with founders Cassandra Holden and Kyle Homstead; the debt ceiling with UMass economics prof Gerald Friedman; 12th Night — Shakespeare & Co @AOM with actor- director- rapper Julian Findlay.
Forward and Back
5/26/23: Rep. Mindy Domb on affordable housing & free menstrual products on public college campuses; MTA Pres. Max Page and 5th grade teacher Brenda Dunn on kids and reading; Donnabelle Casis with Easthampton Film Festival’s Chris Ferry; Bombyx Center founders Cassandra Holden and Kyle Homstead on the City’s order to cease and desist; Jeff Napolitano – reflections on W. Mass activism and WHMP.
Rights, Wrongs, Music, and Life
5/25/23: ACLU of Mass. Exec. Dir. Carol Rose on LGBTQ+ rights, drag performances, and government surveillance; Rev. Carol Bull and filmmaker Amber Bemak on life; law professor Ahmed White on “Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers;” Glenn Seigel and “Jazz a la Mode” host Tom Reney rock the house.
The Future Now
5/24/23: CBI Rabbi Justin David on his activist past and future – and ours; Larry Hott and Chris Ferry on “Greyland” in Easthampton tomorrow;” sex educator Dr. Jane Fleishman; environmentalist Karl Meyer on this weekend’s rally/protest to save the Connecticut River; UMass Biology Professor Paul Katz on the neuroscience of ageing, AI, and memory.
