BPR Full Show 8/16: Influencers And The Election

What influences you in your daily life? Celebrities, influencers, late night show hosts? We opened the lines to discuss. 

It was Live Music Friday with the Boston Lyric Opera, ahead of a free pop-up "Street Stage" show in Roxbury this weekend. Bradley Vernatter, CEO and General Director of BLO, Haris Lefteri, creative director of Hibernian Hall, and musicians Angela Yam, Brett Hodgdon and Cornell Coley.

GBH's Callie Crossley discussed the Tim Walz & JD Vance debate, and the call to bring back speeding tickets if we really want safer roads.

Marcela Garcia, associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe, discussed the private equity coming for your cats & dogs. 

NAACP's Michael Curry discussed how DEI pushback is coming to medical care, and the legislature moving on maternal health.

Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery discussed how two mules sold at auction are actually endangered Przewalksi's horses (the last remaining truly wild horses on earth). 

We ended the show by talking about summer jobs and the memories that came from them with listeners.