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Musician Rufus Wainwright calls in to talk songwriting and more ahead of a show next week at City Winery Boston.

Then, some of our listeners are selfish gluttons, apparently. We get their thoughts on whether they’d take cold showers and wash their laundry in cold water to save the planet.

We opened the show by discussing how much we pay attention to our local legislators and transparency issues

GroundTruth Project's Charlie Sennott talked to us over zoom live from Ukraine. He talked to us about the latest going on there and in Israel/Gaza

Food Policy Analyst Corby Kummer on rising prices of fast food

Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G Price III discussed how a court in North Carolina ruled that a catholic school could fire a gay teacher who announced his wedding online

Singer/Songwriter Rufus Wainwright joined ahead of his show at City Winery Boston next week

If you care about the climate, are you willing to take cold showers? We discussed this with our listeners

It's graduation season, so we opened the show by asking listeners what they remember about their commencement ceremonies.

Radius Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group celebrating their 25th season, which culminates next Thursday with a performance at Longy. They'll join to debut brand-new music and celebrate unsung 18th century Black composer Chevalier De St. Georges.

NBC Boston's Sue O'Connell gave us the latest on the Karen Read trial, Barron Trump's foray into politics, journalist John Kahn's comments about journalism in 2024, and the RFK brain worm.

Doris Kearns Goodwin reflected on her life & legacy, as well as her best-selling new memoir “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s."

GBH's Jared Bowen talked Boston Ballet’s Spring Experience, a new photography exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum, and a Bedford tennis court’s starring role in the sexy tennis thriller Challengers.

Then, we asked listeners about Mother's Day.

Today: Presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin joins Jim and Margery at the Boston Public Library to discuss her new memoir: "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s."

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Former Massachusetts secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral discusses how the testimony of Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, led to Trump’s lawyers asking for a mistrial.

Then it's Am I The A-Hole: This week's prompt involves a man who refused to lend his lawnmower to a neighbor, who proceeded to badmouth him to all their other neighbors. Who's the jerk: The guy who refuses to lend his lawnmower to a neighbor, or the guy who complains about him around town for not lending it out?

NBC's Chuck Todd discussed his latest column on why Trump and Biden should just say sorry for their mistakes and that might save democracy.

Andrea Cabral, former public safety secretary, discussed the latest in Trump's trial with Stephanie Clifford & an East Boston firm fined nearly 500k after the death of a window washer who fell due to faulty equipment.

Paul Reville, former education secretary, discussed the Congressional hearing on anti-semitism and a SCOTUS cast about Boston exam school admission.

Boston Globe film critic Odie Henderson reviewed of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Fall Guy and Nowhere Special.

MIT economist Jon Gruber brought an economist's-eye view to bird flu and protecting against future pandemics.