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.
Amazing Professors
Amazing Professors
3/24/26: (Tuesday’s co-host: UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz)
Princeton History Prof Rhae Lynn Barnes on “Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment.”
Sci-Tech Café w/ MHC Prof Kirsten Norstrom & Hampshire Prof Juliet Johnston: “Everyone Poops…” and what to do with it.
Gfld City Council Pres Lora Wondoloski: budget fights & single-stream recycling.
Duke Goldman, UMass Adjunct Prof, on college & professional sports gambling.
Odysseys
Odysseys
3/23/26: Tara Brewster & Susan Nicastro: Big Brothers/ Big Sisters & karaoke at the Iron Horse.
Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson, Co-Director, Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project: resilience & resistance.
Megan Zinn w/ Mark Oppenheimer on “Judy Blume, a Life.”
Ellen Meeropol, on “Sometimes an Island.”
Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: his Executive Order on immigration enforcement.
In Our Interest
In Our Interest
3/20/26: Labor leaders Max Page & Jon Weissman: protesting Bank of America.
Amherst Coll Prof Austin Sarat: Trump’s cognition & media’s giving him a pass.
Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: ICE in Massachusetts & the ballot questions.
Trustees of Reservations’ Wendy Ferris: Beaver Brook’s Rewilding & other Trustees’ lands here for us;
Political Gold w/ Josh Silver: resistance.
Speaking Up, Speaking Out
Speaking Up, Speaking Out
3/19/26: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk on Covid, flu, allergies, & vaccinations.
DHG & Gfld Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: ICE grabs local men, Citizen of the Year Patricia Thayer, & school funding.
Nanny Vonnegut: censorship of her father Kurt Vonnegut’s books.
Ruth Griggs w/ the extraordinary Giacomo Gates, coming to the Drake.
Celebrate the Children of Resistance
Celebrate the Children of Resistance
3/18/26: Robert Meeropol, Founder, Rosenberg Fund for Children, on Angela Davis coming to Northampton.
Mary Witt—singing LIVE in studio—“Singing Spring In” this Sunday.
Jenny Powers, Dir, Spld Science Museum: “Dinosaurs Still Live!”
Larry Hott: And the Oscar deservedly goes to…
Past, Present and Future
Past, Present and Future
3/17/26: Bill & Carrie Baker FishWrap weapons of mass distraction.
Sue Kassirer: the Art for the Earth exhibit in Leverett
Josh Shanley: the Great Flood of March,1936 & are we safe now?
Our monthly Comedy Quiz — come play Hat Tricks.
Feminist Futures — Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ WAM Theater Artistic Director Genee Coreno: women, art, activism & mobilizing.
Neighborism
Neighborism
3/16/26: Olivia Aguilar, MHC Prof & Dir of Miller Worley Ctr for the Environment: “A Latine Outdoor Experience.”
Megan Zinn w/ Anne Fadiman on “Frog and Other Essays” coming to Broadside.
Oscars Recap & Reactions w/ Megan Zinn & Kerstin Nordstrom.
MA LUCE Immigrant Justice Hotline w/ Lena Entin & Michael Kane.
We Remember
We Remember
3/13/26: We remember Paki Wieland.
The War in Iran w/ Smith Professors Naveed Mansoori & Brent Durbin.
Josh Silver: the politics of the War.
Edo Mor: the Valley’s music scene.
“Mean Girls” at NHS.
ArtBeat w/ Donnabelle Casis & Michael Tillyer of NE Visionary Artists Museum: “Headspace Two.
We the People
We the People
3/12/26: We The People—EHS teacher Kelly Brown & three students—on their way to the National Championship!
Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: reflections on today’s world.
The housing crisis here with John Bidwell (Way Finders) Laura Bandara (Pioneer Valley Planning Comm) & Kerry Spitzer (UMass Donahue Inst).
Remembering Natalie Graves.
Preparing & Repairing
Preparing & Repairing
3/11/26: Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer: fighting ICE & repairing potholes.
Daniel Bullen: “Daniel Shays’ Honorable Rebellion” & lessons for today.
Joe Boisvert, owner of North Hadley Sugar Shack: maple syruping and fab breakfasts.
Cool Films w/ Larry Hott: pairing for the Oscars.
