2019: Our Anger Addiction

Boston Public Radio Podcast

English - May 03, 2019 18:29 - 2 hours - 75.3 MB - ★★★★ - 429 ratings
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Today on Boston Public Radio:

We opened up the show by opening the phone lines to hear our listeners' thoughts on anger: Is it possible to be addicted to it?

Is Nancy Pelosi correct for calling out William Barr as a liar when he was asked about Robert Mueller’s response to his interpretation of Mueller’s investigation? Or is it more complicated? Legal analyst Michael Zeldin discussed this and a range of other legal questions. Zeldin is a former colleague of special counsel Robert Mueller, a legal analyst for CNN and a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard

Kennedy School.

Emily Rooney gave us her famous list of fixations and fulminations. Rooney is the host of Beat The Press on WGBH News.

Shirley Leung, interim Boston Globe editorial editor, joined Jim and Margery as she does every week to discuss the latest local headlines.

Ryan Landry joined the show for his recurring social observations segment You Get The Picture. Landry is a playwright, lyricist, actor, and founder of the Gold Dust Orphans theatrical company, whose latest production The Ebonic Woman, runs May 2 through May 26 at The Machine nightclub in Fenway.

Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar *on WGBH, *broke down recent headlines that examine the extra emotional burden black and minority women take on in our society, and more.

Finally, local beer brewers Maureen Fabry and Adam Romanow joined us in the Boston Public Library studio for the Friday News Quiz, with a preview of the Power Beer Fest, the Mass Brewers Guild's largest fundraiser and beer festival of the year.