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Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her journey to the stage, needing humor in dark times, and proving her college professor wrong. She stars in the film Babes and in the Netflix series Survival of the Thickest.

Also, Ken Tucker shares three summer songs he's had on repeat.

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Bazawule is best-known for directing 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-directed Black Is King with Beyoncé. He has a new exhibit of paintings about his formative years growing up in Ghana.

Also, book critic Maureen Corrigan shares her picks for summer crime/suspense novels.

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New York Times correspondent Peter Goodman illuminates the breakdown of the global supply chain during the pandemic. He says it was rooted in risky management practices, government deregulation, and a quest for greater profits. His new book is How the World Ran Out of Everything.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the sequel to the science fiction series Orphan Black, titled Orphan Black: Echoes.

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Singer-songwriter Carole King has a lot of titles to her name — Grammy Award-winner, Kennedy Center honoree, Broadway musical title character — but in her conversation with Terry in 2012, she learned about a new title she wasn't quite prepared for. Find out just what that title is by tuning in to this special bonus episode. Hear Carole King in 1989: https://n.pr/3VJ8DRF | Hear Carole King in 2012: https://n.pr/3Xmls6A. Listen to 40+ years of Fresh Air's archives at https://FreshAirArchive.org. Not a Fresh Air+ supporter yet? Find out more, and join for yourself, at https://plus.npr.org/freshair.

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson still remembers the first time he heard The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit "Rapper's Delight." It felt like a paradigm shift: "Suddenly they start talking in rhythmic poetry and we didn't know what to make of it," The Roots bandleader says. Questlove's new book is Hip-Hop is History.

The Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator and co-star Rob McElhenney bought a Welsh football club during the pandemic. McElhenney says he and actor Ryan Reynolds bought the team to "bring hope to a town that had fallen on hard times." The FX series Welcome to Wrexham, now in its third season on Hulu, chronicles the team, its owners and fans.

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The award-winning playwright talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nominations. A new HBO documentary chronicles the making of the production.

Plus, Justin Chang reviews Kinds of Kindness.

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