BPR Full Show 7/12/2019: SAM MEWIS!
Publisher |
WGBH
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Jul 12, 2019
Episode Duration |
02:44:45

Today on Boston Public Radio:

  • We opened up the lines and asked listeners about the crumbling Red Line. Is the city's fraught public transportation making you consider moving away?

  • Is the next frontier in fake meats a plant-based fish? Food writer Corby Kummer weighed in. Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic, and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

  • Emily Rooney, host of WGBH's "Beat the Press," shared her famous list of observations and frustrations.

  • OConnell-370005271.html">Sue O'Connell explained why she believes Megan Rapinoe is a new kind of sports icon. O'Connell is the co-publisher of Bay Windows and the South End News, as well as a politics reporter for NECN.

  • Massachusetts-born soccer star Sam Mewis is fresh off a World Cup win with the U.S. women's national team. She joined us to debrief the team's victorious trip to France and their fight for equal pay.

  • Tech writer Andy Ihnatko discussed the Trump administration's move to invite right-wing conspiracy theorists to a so-called "social media summit" at the White House. Ihnatko is a tech writer, blogger and podcaster.

  • We had a highly-caffeinated news quiz with Jim Cannell, the owner of Jim's Coffee, and Christelle Debeuf, their head barista trainer.

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