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 Buz Eisenberg 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), Crime & Punishment (John Pucci), DA David Sullivan, Writers Block (Megan Zinn), Science and Sensibility (Brian Adams), Community Action (Clare Higgins), Righting Wrongs (ACLUM Carol Rose), State Senators Comerford & Mark, Representatives Sabadosa, Blais, 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.
