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.
Bills Come Due
1/30/26: MTA Pres. Max Page: taxing billionaires from Massachusetts to Washington State.
Josh Silver w/ Atty Steve Jonas — Democracy Defenders Fund: can the courts save us? Josh Silver: Nmpton Open Media, YouTube, polarization & diss-course. Donnabelle Casis w/ — Tuman & Newman: “Every Day Is Play: The Art of Dave Rothstein.”
Music to Our Ears
1/29/26: The Northamptones LIVE! And fabulous! Court Dorsey, actor & poet and Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen: “Poems with Wings.” UMass Poli Sci Prof Ray La Raja: too much democracy in Amherst? Ehmpton Mayor Salem Derby: what if ICE comes? & other pressing issues. Jon Anz w/ Orice Jenkins: his jazz gems –Tuesday @ City Sports Grill w/ the Green St. Trio.
Manna from Heaven
1/28/26: Manna Comm Kitchen Ex Dir Niki Landowski & Dev Dir, Kaitlyn Ferrari: combatting hunger here. Cooley Dick Hosp Pres & COO, Kevin Whitney: paying for health care. Citizens Awareness Network Ex Dir Deb Katz: Gov Healey is wrong—No Nukes! “Cool Films” w/ Academy Award voter Larry Hott: his movie recommendations.
Not Rocket Science, Astro-Physics
1.27 Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: CRESS (unarmed civilian response to 911) & Snowmageddon. Mt Holyoke Prof Kerstin Nordstrom w/ Amherst’s Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi: GIANT planets and brown dwarfs. Gfld Council Pres Lora Wondoloski: banning surveillance cameras & affordable housing.
UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/ Amherst DEI’s Philip Avila: honoring Black History Month.
Resistance
1/22/26: Ruth Griggs w/Dave Haughey & Natalie Padilla: “Cello & Chocolate” @ Bombyx. ACLU of Mass Exec Dir Carol Rose: how you can resist– now, today, really! Rabbi David Seidenberg: ICE, Rabbinic resistance, religious extremism & Tu BiShvat. Nanette Vonnegut & ACLU of Utah atty Tom Ford: their lawsuit against book banning, including “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
Celebrating and Grieving
1/23/26: MTA Pres Max Page: The Gov’s “State of the Commonwealth” address, Fair Share, social media regs, & cell phones in schools. Political Consultant Josh Silver: Trump, Greenland, Epstein, Davos, NATO & Europe. The Writers’ Mill Founding Members Mary Beth Caschetta & Morgan Griffin: “Industry Want Company.” UMass Poli Sci Prof & pollster Tatishe Nteta: Trump’s continuing popularity? Donnabelle Casis w/ STCC Prof Sondra Peron: “Faces of Grief.”
Frozen Out in the Cold
1/21/26: Former Amherst Town Council Member Andy Steinberg—crisis in muni budgets? Baseball historian Duke Goldman & Howard Bryant’s Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. All Out Adventure Exe. Dir.’s Karen Foster Cold Plunge, Cool Films with Larry Hott Come See Me in the Good Light & Mistress Dispeller.
Minding Our Ps & Qs
1/16/26: MTA Pres Max Page: death by 1,000 cuts? Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: our democracy, ourselves. Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump, higher ed & troops on the streets. Josh Silver: behind the headlines, polls & pols. Donnabelle Cass w/ Smith Coll Museum of Art’s Emma Chub – the extraordinary exhibit “Don’t Mind if I Do.”
No Net
1/15/26: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: flu is rampaging & the medical system failing. Gazette & Gfld Recorder Ex Editor Dan Crowley: Trump’s attacks on the press & behind local headlines. UMass Legal Studies Prof, Atty Jamie Rowen: Trump, Venezuela, Greenland & int’l law. Ruth Griggs w/ star flute and sax musician Anna Webber: coming to the Iron Horse w/ her nonet.
