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TJX stores plan to have their employees wear bodycams inside stores to prevent shoplifting.

Singer/songwriter Danielle Miraglia is our guest for Live Music Friday, she’s playing tonight in Rockport and tomorrow in Hopkinton.

Callie Crossley on the FDA reversing its ban on Juul vapes, and conversation around privilege in the WNBA re: Caitlyn Clark.

Adrianna Boulin & Gary Gary Daffin from Boston Pride for the People joined ahead of tomorrow’s parade to talk about the state of Boston Pride, LGBT acceptance and more…

Sue O’Connell on coverage of Karen Read for NBC, she’ll Zoom in to talk through the latest, plus the race to be Trump’s VP, Steve Bannon getting ordered to surrender to prison by July, and her latest coyote sighting.

Shirley Leung on the latest in her series about Boston’s broken liquor license system… also, Boston City Council passing a new property tax proposal, a booming Asian community in Malden, and the mayoral candidates looking to unseat Mayor Wu.

Shorts in the office? Yay or nay? We opened the lines.

Today:

This year’s Boston’s Pride For The People Pride Parade & Festival kicks off tomorrow. Organization President Adrianna Bolin and development & parade co-chair, Gary Daffin join us in Studio 3 to preview the festivities.

And, Danielle Miraglia joins us in Studio 3 for Live Music Friday. She’s got a brand new single out today, and if you want to catch her live in person, she’s playing two shows locally this weekend.

Chuck Todd is back for weekly D.C. roundup with reflections on the Hunter Biden trial and political polls.

Then we asked you about the egregious costs of live event tickets.

Andrea Cabral reacts to the Trump and Hunter Biden trials, new updates in the Alito flag saga, plus a new law out of Arizona to regulate AI that was written with help from AI tools.

David Shapiro & Sarah Bartley join for a conversation about what Massachusetts is doing to assist migrant families. David heads the YMCA of Greater Boston and Sarah is VP of safe & stable housing with United Way of Massachusetts Bay, which is the group coordinating aid among organizations and nonprofits.

Art Caplan discusses new research on Long COVID, a report on U.S. maternal mortality, a new program in California that offers money to addicts who stay clean and a recent NY Times piece on whether you should delay your morning coffee.

Joe Sasto is a celebrity chef who’s leading gnocchi making classes at this year’s Martha’s Vineyard Food & Wine festival. He joins to talk about his career, with a little wine tasting.

We ended the show with Am I the A-hole. This week, we asked who should pay for a replacement vibrator: the person who carelessly left it buzzing about, or the dog owner whose pet ate it?

On the heels of Biden’s border announcement we’ll talk to the president of the Greater Boston YMCA David Shapiro & Sarah Bartley of United Way of Massachusetts Bay on the influx of migrants in Massachusetts, and the people providing shelter and services.


And, Top Chef Joe Sasto joins us in Studio 3 with sips and nibbles – ahead of the Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival this weekend.

We opened the show by asking listeners about tracking locations of children.

Jared Bowen discussed the Arlekin players "Dybbuk" and a bunch of Tony-nominated shows

Juliette Kayyem discussed Biden's border decision, plus Fauci's congressional hearing on COVID.

Andy Ihnatko talked about the latest tech news.

Chef Joanne Chang & cookbook author Grace Young discussed supporting Boston's Chinatown.

Sy Montgomery, naturalist, discussed the dolphin buddy system, crows' ability to count like toddlers, and the great corgi races.

Who leaves a shopping cart right in the middle of a parking lot? Well, we opened the lines to ask.

Today:

Two James Beard winners join us in studio 3… Flour’s Joanne Chang alongside activist, author and self-proclaimed stir-fry guru Grace Young, on the cultural significance of America’s Chinatowns.


And, we close out the show asking about shopping cart etiquette, and if you can reconcile being a good person, with leaving the cart in the parking lot.