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.
Policing, Politics, and Money
4/24/23: Greenfield Mayor Roxann Wedegartner on policing, politics, and municipal money. Where’s your radar? Sci-Tech Café with Professors Kerstin Nordstrom (MHC) and Aaron Rubin (Smith). The $97.5 million dollar question—the big vote on schools in Amherst has begun—with Councilor Anna Devlin Gauthier. Edit this: Writers Block with Megan Zinn and MacMillan Production Editor Susannah Noel.
Pride is Back!
4/21/23: Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa on trans and abortion rights; Natalia Muñoz on the mass resignation of NEPM’s Latino Advisory Board; Donnabelle Casis and Tiffany Hilton on the Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail this weekend; from the DA’s office — Rachel Senecal on Prescription Drug Take Back Day — Saturday; Hampshire Pride Director Clay Pearson on upcoming Hampshire Pride-May 6; Maya van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments –has the time come for the Massachusetts constitution?
Hypnotized
4/20/23: Gazette and Recorder Executive Editor Dan Crowley on the Easthampton school superintendent brouhaha; Smith astronomy professor James Lowenthal and his class on tomorrow’s NightFest in Northampton; Edwards Church Rev. Michael McSherry on gun violence; Professor Brian Adams and Ted Muszynski on hypnosis; Glenn Siegel and Ken Vandermark, superstar musician and MacArthur Fellow, performing with his band tonight at Hawks & Reed.
Breaking Northampton News
4/19/23: Connecticut River Defenders Paki Wieland & Priscilla Lynch on Sunday’s protest against relicensing the Northfield power plant; Rich Michelson on “Sleeping as Fast as I Can”— book launch Sunday; Larry Hott on his documentary “The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights;” UMass Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) Director Hoang Phan and students Gabriel Futterman and Ava Hawkes on the 50th anniversary; Northampton City Council President Jim Nash announces he won’t run for re-election and discusses water rates, reparations, and a new city speed limit.
Grand Delusions, a Comedy Quiz, and Shortchanged Schools
4/18/23: “Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East” –with counter-terrorism expert, Steven Simon; then, funny animals—it’s our Comedy Quiz– with the Happier Valley Comedy cast; Educational Collaborative Exec. Dir. Todd Gazda on why many schools are shortchanged; Michael Ruskin on his parents “The Vow: A Love Story and the Holocaust.”
Earth Day Chase
4/17/23: Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle on the turbulent search for a school superintendent; author Andrew Boyd on “I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor;” Kathy Mulvey, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, on protesting Chase Bank in Northampton; Whatchareadin’? with 6th grader Elizabeth Galman and her mom, UMass Education Professor Sally Campbell Galman, and “Writers Block” host, Megan Zinn.
Fund Time
4/14/23: Mass. Teachers Ass’n President Max Page on UMass. tuition & fees and tax cuts; First Franklin Representative Natalie Blais, from her perspective on Ways & Means, on funding for schools and other necessities; Clare Higgins, Exec. Dir. of Community Action Pioneer Valley, on early childhood education. Then, filmmaker Julia Mintz, on “Four Winters,” a harrowing story of resistance and courage.
Abortion Rights?
4/13/23: ACLU of Mass. Executive Director Carol Rose on the Texas abortion case and appeal; science professors Brian Adams (GCC) and Klaus Lackner (AZ State) on mechanical trees (!) removing carbon from the air; musicians Glenn Seigel and legendary saxophonist Jimmy Greene, coming to the Drake in Amherst, on “Ana’s Way,” the composition for his daughter who died at Sandy Hook.
Live in the Studio
4/12/23: Michael Klare on Taiwan and China, Ukraine and Russia; LIVE in the studio– Jaiden Meltzer (keyboard and voice) and Ezra Passalaqua preview Friday’s Bow Bow Bash; Producer/Director Julia Mintz previews “Four Winters,” on Jewish partisans of WWII, coming to the AoM; professors Carrie Baker (Smith) and Lisa Fontes(UMass) on coercive control in intimate partner relationships; Amherst Town Council President Lynn Griesemer & Councilor Cathy Schoen on the upcoming vote on money for schools.
On the Brink
4/11/23: Brianna Holt, author of “In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So ‘Post Racial’ America;” Bill and Buz on antisemitism in Belchertown; Duke Goldman –“Talkin’ Baseball” – quite the first 10 days!; Smith College professor and attorney Carrie Baker on the new abortion drug decisions; Dr. Ira Helfand, founder of Back from the Brink, —the award he is receiving this week for his anti-nuclear work puts him in the company of Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Coretta Scott King.
