BPR Full Show: How to forage mushrooms

Today on Boston Public Radio:

We begin the show by asking listeners if President Joe Biden should run for a second term, or if not, who should replace him.

Charlie Sennott shares his thoughts about Biden’s upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia, Boris Johnson’s resignation and the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Sennott is a news analyst for GBH, where he also heads up the GroundTruth Project.

Adam Chandler discusses the ways that start-ups can be market disruptors and the destruction they sometimes leave in their wake, including ghost kitchens, grocery delivery services and ride share companies, particularly given the fallout from Uber’s recent leak. Chandler is a journalist and author based in New York, and a former staff writer at The Atlantic. 

Tyler Akabane talks about his new store, The Mushroom Shop, discusses the cultural moment that mushrooms are having and shares his foraging recommendations. Akabane is the founder and owner of The Mushroom Shop, a specialty mushroom shop in Somerville. 

Then we ask listeners whether they buy into mushroom mania.

Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price weigh in on the corrupt politics of the Supreme Court in the context of their recent landmark decisions, as well as recent calls to serve a dormant warrant about lies told in Emmett Till’s trial. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston, and the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together they host the “All Rev’d Up” podcast.

Nick Quah shares his top podcast recommendations right now, including Stitcher, Rococo Punch and Room Tone’s “Welcome to Provincetown'', hosted by Mitra Kaboli, season 7 of Slate’s show “Slow Burn,” hosted by Susan Matthews, and the most recent installment of Pineapple Street Studios’ The 11th, called “His Saturn Returns.” Quah is Vulture’s podcast critic.

We end the show by asking listeners whether they’d go on a cruise in a COVID world.